addiction

Escalating numbers of those addicted to opioids have caused state governments and private industries to explore alternatives for pain control and withdrawal, and viable options are emerging for both those who need to get off painkillers, and those who suffer from intense pain. The Daily...

While legislators and health regulators across the country have considered using medical marijuana to address opioid addiction, states have frequently turned down the idea. From New Hampshire to New Mexico, several states that allow medical marijuana for issues like cancer and glaucoma have...

Most users consider marijuana addiction a myth, but Colorado State University's psychology department takes it seriously...so much so that it's focusing on marijuana in its new master's program on addiction counseling. "Historically speaking, people thought you couldn't get addicted to...

A drug addiction treatment center claims to be helping patients give up heroin and cocaine with medical marijuana. Cannabis is more frequently associated with getting high than getting sober — but the directors of one rehab facility in Los Angeles say it can reduce overall harm caused by drug...

Harm reduction is a strategy for treating addiction that begins with acceptance. A friendlier, less disciplined sister of abstinence, this philosophy aims to reduce the overall level of drug use among people who are unable or simply unwilling to stop. What should naturally follow is a decrease...

Unresolved trauma and conflict is the root of all disease. Substance abuse is a disease. Addiction is a component of disease. There is no gene that gives a person addiction. The pathway to addiction and substance abuse is a learned behavior. Scholars are studying how poor rural white people are...

When it comes to drugs like the nicotine, caffeine or even heavier substances such as cocaine or heroin, we know that they are in fact, addictive. However, the answer to whether or not cannabis is addictive is not so simple. This hot-button question is representative of a huge grey area of...

This boggles my mind so I thought I'd look for some opinions here. I just read a local whitepaper that talks about an addiction treatment facility in Massachusetts that's weening patients off of opioids using medical marijuana with a 75% success rate!1 Rates for other addiction treatments aren't...

As the failed cannabis prohibition efforts continue to die a slow death some interesting new growth is emerging in the wake. Marijuana-friendly treatment centers are already up and running in California and they may be a prelude to a much larger movement in the treatment of addiction. It's...

A state advisory board that makes recommendations to the Health Department on New Mexico's rapidly expanding Medical Cannabis Program voted 5-1 Nov. 4 in favor of adding "opiate use disorder" to the list of conditions that qualify, a move one health professional said could transform the state's...

A state advisory board that makes recommendations to the Health Department on New Mexico's rapidly expanding Medical Cannabis Program voted 5-1 Nov. 4 in favor of adding "opiate use disorder" to the list of conditions that qualify, a move one health professional said could transform the state's...

Opioids & Heroin According to the Center for Disease Control, opioids, including heroin, were responsible for more than 28,600 deaths in 2014 and 61% of all overdose related deaths. Heroin is a growing problem in the United States and it is popping up everywhere from city streets to once quiet...

Opioids & Heroin According to the Center for Disease Control, opioids, including heroin, were responsible for more than 28,600 deaths in 2014 and 61% of all overdose related deaths. Heroin is a growing problem in the United States and it is popping up everywhere from city streets to once quiet...

It's no secret that there is an opioid epidemic here in the United States. It's also no secret that the continued practice of prescribing opioid painkillers is a huge contributing factor in the advancement of this epidemic. Even the CDC itself has admitted that prescription drugs are playing a...

A state agency has denied a petition to allow medical marijuana to be prescribed for treatment of addiction to opioids and other drugs. Dawson Julia, a medical marijuana caregiver in Unity, filed the petition Jan. 12 and was informed of the denial Monday in a letter from Health and Human...

A state agency has denied a petition to allow medical marijuana to be prescribed for treatment of addiction to opioids and other drugs. Dawson Julia, a medical marijuana caregiver in Unity, filed the petition Jan. 12 and was informed of the denial Monday in a letter from Health and Human...

Maine could become the first state to add addiction to opioid prescriptions and illegal narcotics like heroin to its list of conditions that qualify for medical marijuana. Nearly 30 medical marijuana caregivers and patients told state regulators at a public hearing last month that marijuana...

An ever increasing body of scientific literature holds the idea that marijuana can actually save people from painkiller and heroin addiction. Not surprisingly, a number of doctors in Massachusetts and California have already experimented with marijuana as addiction treatment. The untimely...

Calls of supporters have been made for medical practitioners to allow marijuana for the treatment of painkiller and heroin addiction. However, marijuana can only treat chronic pain to take away the need to take painkillers and heroin for pain. There is a growing number of patients that claim...

Medical marijuana caregivers and patients will ask state regulators Tuesday to consider adding opiate addiction as a qualifying condition for medical marijuana. Maine will be the first state to formally consider allowing medical marijuana to be used as treatment for addiction to opiates and...