As a former emergency medicine physician, I’ve seen my share of patients suffering due to opioid addiction and overdoses. After all, more than 1,000 people per day are treated in emergency departments for misusing prescription opioids, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Americans can‘t keep using opioids, such as oxycodone, morphine, […]
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Clinical Trials Using Cannabis-Based Drug Showing Promise For Epilepsy
Hank Kovach’s experience mirrors the recent success stories of other children with drug-resistant epilepsy. Wracked by frequent, daily seizures that delayed his brain development, the 7-year-old Chicago boy was unable to speak, learn much or even sleep without waking up in tears after an hour or two. Conventional drugs didn’t help much. But after he […]
France Approves Cannabis-Based Medicine
Cannabis-based medicine will soon be available in France, as the country’s health officials recently approved commercial sales of the drug for the first time in history. A report from the Associated Press indicates that Britain’s GW Pharmaceuticals has been gr… High Times