New Halifax cannabis clinic hopes to be alternative to opioids
A new medical marijuana clinic will open its doors in Halifax later this summer, with its director hoping to offer an alternative to opioids and other pharmaceuticals.
"We want to be able to provide a really sound and thorough method so people will understand that there are very significant alternatives that they need to look at," says Kenny Lord, director of National Access Cannabis' Atlantic region.
Overdoses drop: study
Between 2007 and 2010, almost 300 people died from prescription drug overdoses in Nova Scotia, 77 per cent more deaths than those due to illicit drugs in the same time period, according to the Canadian Journal of Addiction Medicine.Â
The Nova Scotia College of Physicians and Surgeons recently recommended doctors cut in half the frequency of prescribed opioids for chronic pain, and to stop considering opioids as a first method of treatment for chronic pain.
That could leave space for alternatives, such as cannabis, to surface, Lord said.
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