Articles tagged with "opioids"

Kicking pills with cannabis? A once-radical idea goes legit as more and more patients reclaim their lives.

Cannabis isn’t a magical cure. But it helped these former opioid addicts kick the pills, get healthy and reclaim their lives.

At High Sobriety, an innovative addiction treatment center in Southern California, cannabis isn’t just tolerated—it’s provided as part of recovery.

AusCann got one step closer to completing the sought-after farm-to-pharma model this week when it was granted a manufacturing license by the Office of Drug Control.

The opioid crisis is raging and plans to declare it a national emergency are in the works. What does a formal declaration of a national emergency entail?

The National Institutes of Health is funding a five-year study to see if chronic pain patients do better with MMJ.

Cannabis has been conspicuously absent from the White House’s discussion of the opioid crisis despite growing evidence it that the plant could help reduce overdoses.

To fight the opioid epidemic, there needs to be a substitute that is more safe, effective, and accessible. How exactly does cannabis work to block pain?

The group, led by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, did not mention cannabis in its report.

Two US senators have submitted several suggested reforms to the White House, including the use of medical cannabis as an alternative to opioid painkillers.