When healthcare providers first recognized pain as a fifth vital sign and treated it more aggressively, the number of opioid prescriptions quadrupled in the first 15 years of the new ...
When healthcare providers first recognized pain as a fifth vital sign and treated it more aggressively, the number of opioid prescriptions quadrupled in the first 15 years of the new ...
Legal access to medical marijuana is associated with lower rates of moderate and high-risk opioid use, according to a recent study—the latest in a string of research to come to the same ...
Cannabis dispensaries opened for business this month in Ohio amid a continuing debate over medical marijuana's benefits.
This Medical News & Perspectives article discusses recently enacted state laws that allow prescribed opioids to be substituted with medical marijuana.
As politicians continue to argue over how best to address the current opioid epidemic, medical marijuana is quietly making a case for itself.
A cannabis initiative team at UCLA plans to conduct a high-quality clinical study of the painkilling properties of pot — and perhaps stem the opioid epidemic.
Women who support Moms for Marijuana talk about why they back using cannabis and resent any implication they’re not good moms.