How This Weed Study May Help End The Painkiller Epidemic

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Take your medicine

Before we go any further with this article about weed, and doctors, and addiction, I want to make it clear that I know very little about weed, even less about being a doctor, and I am completely (and thankfully) ignorant about addiction. The issue of painkiller abuse in the United States is incredibly complex and incredibly sad, and like most incredibly complex and sad things, there are no easy solutions to fix the problem.

But there is definitely a problem:

According to The Center for Disease Control, 46 people die from prescription painkiller overdoses every day in the United States. Between 1991 and 2013, prescriptions for painkillers has increased by 172%.

I won’t attempt to unpack the many reasons for the meteoric increase in painkiller prescriptions (though Austin Frakt does a very good job of it in his New York Times article), but is clear...

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