Two studies from the University of Georgia suggest that cannabis may be a pain-management substitute for people with chronic or acute pain from conditions like cancer, and that medical cannabis laws lead to fewer opioid prescriptions. The study, titled “Cannabis Laws and Opioid Use Among Commercially Insured Patients With Cancer Diagnoses” and published last month in the journal JAMA Health Forum, […]
Opioids are a class of drug that includes synthetics like fentanyl and heroin. Addiction to opioids has been deemed a national epidemic in North America, and cannabis has shown to be a replacement for the often prescribed drug. Read about cannabis news as it relates opioids in the featured articles below.
