After years of dealing with endometriosis and PCOS pain and navigating opioid-based painkillers, cannabis finally helped me find a way to live again. (Content note and disclaimer: this piece briefly mentions sexual assault and addresses medical themes. The article occasionally uses gendered language because the studies referenced on endometriosis and PCOS pain only include or...
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To Solve The Opioid Crisis We Need To Go Beyond The 12 Step Program
We need more effective treatment. President Trump just declared the opioid epidemic a “public health emergency”. I don’t need to define what a public health emergency is, but it means that the abuse of opioids and the overdoses that follow have reached a critical mass. The bodies are stacking up, as ghoulish as it is...
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New Study of Fatal Crashes Suggests Patients Prefer Pot Over Opioids When It’s Legal
A study by Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health recently found that fewer car accidents are caused by those under the influence of opioid narcotics in states where cannabis use is legal. Our pot dealers have been telling this for decades! Kidding aside, this is one of the first studies from a major university to actually assess...