Could medical marijuana help fight the opioid epidemic?

Improving outcomes and giving patients their lives back...
According to the Aclara study, the preliminary findings showed that 67 percent of the patients stopped using opioid medications after using medical cannabis.
And another 29 percent reported a decrease in the number of opioid medications used after starting medical cannabis.
Thirty percent of the patients said they stopped using any and all prescription drugs after using medical marijuana.
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