Marijuana addiction is real, and rising. In this post from The Denver Post, read more about why addiction treatment practitioners are seeing a surge in demand for help. For as long as most residents can remember, smoking marijuana has been a part of life here. The fact that California legalized the practice in January went practically unnoticed in this quiet town a ... Continue Reading
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Medical Cannabis and Opioid Use: Link Missing?
Is legalization of medical cannabis truly correlated with lower opioid use? Further research is definitely necessary to confirm the full effects of medical cannabis on opioid abuse. Read the analysis in this post from GreenCamp. Many research studies have confirmed that legalizing medical marijuana definitely lowers the number of pain medication prescribed, but are those two ... Continue Reading
CBD and Opioids: Can CBD Help Avert the Crisis?
The evidence surrounding CBD and its ability to assist with opioid addiction treatment and withdrawal is compelling. This post from SOL*CBD highlights the promise CBD shows! On October 26, 2017, President Donald Trump officially declared opioid abuse a public health emergency. He also announced a new plan to combat this drug crisis. He described the current opioid epidemic ... Continue Reading
Drawing the Line Between Cannabis Use & Misuse
Check out if cannabis use is putting your health at risk and to what extent. This post from Dinafem Blog helps spot the differences between cannabis use and misuse. Do we make good use of cannabis? Where is the line between use and abuse? Cannabis is not an innocuous substance, it has an impact on the organism, which can be positive or negative depending on the ... Continue Reading
Drug Abuse: A Health Issue or a Criminal One?
Should drug abuse be treated as a criminal issue at all? This post from The Independent highlights how far away are we from an informed debate on drug abuse. In prisons, on our poorest housing schemes, even in the archetypal leafy suburbs of Britain, the war on drugs has long been lost. According to the Office for National Statistics, there were 3,744 record deaths from drug ... Continue Reading