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An Expert Analysis of Cannabis and Cannabinoids in 2025 with Dr. Kevin Hill

CE Hours 2.5

About this course

As additional states legalize medical and recreational cannabis, many of your patients are either interested in using cannabis or cannabinoids to address medical issues or are already doing so. This seminar will provide clinicians with the best information so that they may have sensible conversations with their patients about this controversial topic.

This presentation was recorded on November 14, 2025

Learning Objectives

  • Identify FDA-approved cannabinoids and their medical indication
  • Increase confidence with discussing the effects of cannabis on common psychiatric conditions
  • Review the risks and benefits of CBD use

Learning Levels

  • intermediate

Course Instructor(s)

  • Kevin Hill, MD

    Dr. Kevin Hill is Director of Addiction Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He earned a Master’s in Health Science at the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at the Yale School of Medicine. He most commonly treats patients who have problems with alcohol, cannabis, or opioids and has been named one of Boston Magazine’s Top Doctors for the past seven years. He teaches medical students and physicians how to treat patients with addictions. He treats professional athletes from the National Football League (NFL), the National Basketball Association, and the Boston Red Sox, as well as airline pilots. He is the Co-Chair of the NFL/NFL Players’ Association Pain Management Committee. The author of Marijuana: The Unbiased Truth about the World’s Most Popular Weed (Hazelden 2015) and co-author of Medical Cannabis: An Evidence-Based Guide (Wolters-Kluwer 2020), Dr. Hill’s research interests include the development of medications to treat cannabis use disorder as well as cannabis policy, and he has published widely on these topics in such journals as JAMA, The American Journal of Psychiatry, JAMA Internal Medicine, and Lancet Psychiatry. He serves on the editorial boards of Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, the American Journal on Addictions and Frontiers in Public Health.

    Dr. Hill has become an internationally-recognized speaker on addiction topics due to his ability to connect with audiences and make complex concepts understandable. He gives balanced, evidence- based talks on cannabis, opioids, and alcohol to a wide variety of audiences.

Disclosure

DISCLOSURE OF RELEVANT FINANCIAL RELATIONSHIPS CE Learning Systems adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Medical Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity ― including faculty, planners, reviewers, or others ― are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (formerly known as commercial interests). The following relevant financial relationships have been disclosed by this activity’s planners, faculty, and the reviewer: PLANNERS AND REVIEWER The planners of this activity have reported that they have no relevant financial relationships. FACULTY The faculty of this activity have reported that they have no relevant financial relationships.

References

  • Gazendam A, Nucci N, Gouveia K, Abdel Khalik H, Rubinger L, Johal H. Cannabinoids in the management of acute pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Cannabis Cannabinoid Res. 2020;5(4):290-297. doi:10.1089/can.2019.0079
  • IASP Presidential Task Force on Cannabis and Cannabinoid Analgesia. International association for the study of pain presidential task force on cannabis and cannabinoid analgesia position statement. PAIN. 2021;162:S1. doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002265
  • Jeffers AM, Glantz S, Byers AL, Keyhani S. Association of cannabis use with cardiovascular outcomes among US adults. Journal of the American Heart Association. 2024;13(5):e030178. doi:10.1161/JAHA.123.030178
  • National Academies of Sciences E, Division H and M, Practice B on PH and PH, Agenda C on the HE of MAER and R. Therapeutic Effects of Cannabis and Cannabinoids. In: The Health Effects of Cannabis and Cannabinoids: The Current State of Evidence and Recommendations for Research. National Academies Press (US); 2017. Accessed July 2, 2025. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK425767/
  • Hines LA, Freeman TP, Gage SH, et al. Association of high-potency cannabis use with mental health and substance use in adolescence. JAMA Psychiatry. 2020;77(10):1044-1051. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.1035

CE Process Info

Content

  • Presentation Recording
    1 parts
    • Presentation Recording
  • Materials
    3 parts
    • Slides
    • kansagara_hill-et-al-2025-cannabis-or-cannabinoids-for-the-management-of-chronic-noncancer-pain-best-practice-advice-from.pdf
    • NAC clinician sheet
  • American Psychological Association (APA)

    The Private Practice Colloquium (PPC) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The PPC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

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  • Publication Date
    Jan 20th, 2026

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