Experts say there’s a surprising new weapon in the battle against the opioid addiction crisis: Medical marijuana.
While it may seem counter-intuitive to use one drug to battle addiction to another, some serious addiction experts think it may work, reports CBS2’s Dr. Max Gomez.
“My bones are dying at the joints, suddenly my muscles began to tear. Thought it was just aging,” reports medical marijuana patient Scott Jordan.
It wasn’t aging, it was side effects of the HIV medications that kept Jordan alive and mostly healthy for 35 years.
When the pain of his orthopedic problems had him on massive doses of opioid pain killers, Jordan knew that was a path to tragedy.
“My mother committed suicide while ODing on opioids, my older brother did also,” he said.
His need to kick opioids eventually led him to Columbia Care, a medical marijuana dispensary in Manhattan where trained pharmacists work with patients to get the right product to treat their condition.
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