Purdue Pharma, a major pharmaceutical company that is responsible for manufacturing Oxycontin, a deadly opiate that contributed to the opioid epidemic, plead guilty to 3 criminal charges last month to complete a settlement of over $ 8 billion, says the US Justice Department. The complaints were filed in a New…
Are Opioid and Cannabinoid Receptors Friends with Benefits? For a very long time, because of the illegality of cannabis, opioids were used to control all sorts of medical conditions. But before that, both were equally used to treat many medical conditions, and also for recreational purposes. Both cannabis and opioids…
CBD For Curbing Heroin and Opioid Addictions The addiction to heroin is real. This silent killer is affecting society, and it’s killing people by the thousands. It isn’t just the heroin that you buy on the streets – what’s worse is that doctors PRESCRIBE these drugs to patients, and it’s…
What You Need To Know About Dsuvia, Another Deadly But Recently Approved Opioid By The FDA Hint: It’s 10 times stronger than fentanyl The United States is drowning in an alarming opioid crisis which the government hasn’t seem to found a way out of. Legalizing cannabis has proven to help…
The Science Is In: 6 New Studies Proving That Cannabis Is The Only Solution To Our Opioid Problem Fibromyalgia, arthritis, addiction, you name it – cannabis is the remedy The years 2016 to 2017 were the worst for opioid-related deaths in the United States, and if we don’t act now,…
Cannabis Lozenges Effective For Pain & Opioid Dependency Study Says Research shows that you don’t always have to smoke pot if you need to treat pain. A new study published in Frontiers in Neuroscience revealed that patients who eat cannabis-infused oral lozenges reported a decrease in chronic pain and opioid…
Illinois Legalizes MMJ As An Opioid Alternative This week saw a landmark milestone for Illinois, which is now the 4th state where cannabis can legally be prescribed by physicians as an opioid substitute. Illinois joins the ranks of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania in doing so. Senate Bill 336…
Swapping Your Opioid Prescriptions For Pot Could Soon Be Reality In Colorado And Illinois If all goes according to plan, patients in Colorado and Illinois can soon swap their opioid prescriptions for pot. Two new bills have been introduced as a response to the current opioid epidemic killing thousands of…
16 Opioid Poisonings Daily: The Grim Reality of Canada’s Opioid Crisis America is not alone in facing the dark reality of the opioid crisis. According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), Canada is seeing 16 opioid poisonings a day from 2016-2017, which result in hospitalization. These figures have…
America’s opioids crisis has taken a staggering toll, killing more than 42,000 people in 2016 alone and more than 250,000 people over the past decade. On Thursday, underscoring the severity of the crisis, Surgeon General Jerome Adams issued a statement without apparent precedent in which he urged “health care practitioners,…