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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Is Cannabis The Solution To Canada’s Painkiller Epidemic?
It sounds like torture. A living nightmare. But it could just as easily happen to you or me. Accidents that result in severe nerve pain are quite common. Victoria, British Columbia businessman Dave Brownell, 68, found this out when he herniated a disc and ended up with serious nerve pain radiating throughout his body. “Over […]
CDC Guidelines Aim to Curb Painkiller Epidemic
Prescription painkillers should not be a first choice for treating common ailments like back pain and arthritis, according to new federal guidelines designed to reshape how doctors prescribe drugs likeOxyContinandVicodin. Read article here: High Times
Federal Lawmakers Concerned the FDA Is Sustaining a Painkiller Epidemic, Pot Prohibition
Federal lawmakers are concerned that the United States painkiller epidemic is destined to continue driving tens of thousands of citizens every year into an early grave because the national agencies responsible for controlling this madness are being paid by the very indust… Read article here: High Times
Pot Activist Wants to Help Heroin Epidemic… With an African Plant and the Kardashians
Long time marijuana activist and organizer of the Global Million Marijuana March, Dana Beal has set his sights on tackling a new problem—the growing heroin epidemic. And he has quite the plan to do it. Read article here: High Times
California’s Prescription Drug Epidemic
Whether it’s an upper or downer, from Oxycontin to Adderall, many yearning for a high are under the deadly illusion that pharmaceutical drugs are safer than illegal substances. Subsequently, like most of the US, Los Angeles is seeing record overdoses of people abusi… High Times