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Sometimes, efforts that begin with the best intentions can just end up making things worse. The Centers for Disease Control and state and local regulators have been fighting the national epidemic of prescription opioid painkiller abuse by increasing regulation of prescription opioid drugs and...

12/12/16 on Fox News on "The O'Reilly Factor" which I watch all the time. I really don't want to make this a political issue. Bill O'Reilly was lumping in marijuana with the opioid & heroin crisis, which is typical of the old world thinking. Especially when there is hundreds of thousands of...

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...

The National Institute on Drug Abuse is a U.S. federal research institute focused on "[advancing] science on the causes and consequences of drug use and addiction ... to apply that knowledge to improve individual and public health. " Though it admits "the majority of people who use marijuana do...

"The secret history of the heroin crisis," Don Winslow writes at Esquire, is rooted in marijuana legalization. Specifically, Winslow claims that because marijuana legalization in Colorado and other states depleted drug cartels' revenues - by pushing marijuana out of the black market - the...

Rumford - Several dozen people attended a seminar Thursday evening at the Rumford American Legion Hall to hear how cannabis oil can help fight heroin and opioid addiction. The seminar was organized by Don Hamann of Rumford, a state-licensed medical marijuana caregiver since 2011. He became...

Rumford - Several dozen people attended a seminar Thursday evening at the Rumford American Legion Hall to hear how cannabis oil can help fight heroin and opioid addiction. The seminar was organized by Don Hamann of Rumford, a state-licensed medical marijuana caregiver since 2011. He became...

Islambad - We read about people going blind or dying from alcohol, prescription drugs, opiods such as heroin, and other laboratory drugs like methamphetamine, but how many people have you heard of who died from hashish? None. They just laugh a little too much and take a nap. This was said by...

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...

Marijuana is said to benefit those who suffer from a host of maladies and disease. A bill signed into law by Gov. Tom Wolf on Sunday allows its use in treating symptoms of 17 conditions including cancer, chronic pain and epilepsy. But that doesn't even contemplate another potential...

Marijuana is said to benefit those who suffer from a host of maladies and disease. A bill signed into law by Gov. Tom Wolf on Sunday allows its use in treating symptoms of 17 conditions including cancer, chronic pain and epilepsy. But that doesn't even contemplate another potential...