Topic: prescription medications

Unbeknownst to the patient, the CBD products they also use could affect how well those prescribed medicines work, or interact with them in unhelpful ways.

…optimally, the goal isn’t just to get different specialists to work together, it’s to educate all practitioners to address the patient with awareness of both perspectives.

…for a casual reader, anecdotes such as hers are like commercials for drug use.

Investors naturally seek to increase the value of their investment, while patients seek access to medication they need at a price they can afford.

I can imagine a hundred scenarios in which Dsuvia somehow leaves the battlefield and finds it way into the world of drug abuse.

Then there are the users who seek to overcome their own elevated tolerance, which interferes with ordinary drug-taking, by simultaneously consuming a second substance of the same general effect

The field is getting accustomed to patients arriving in addiction treatment complaining of problems with prescription opioids, stimulants, sedatives, etc, while actively enrolled in medical cannabis programs.

In the past, we’ve flung opioids at the problem, and haven’t developed alternatives.

…tolerable when we’re talking about window fasteners or computer mice but surely not when the product in question directly affects our health or even our survival.

Not everybody wants to remain dependent on pain medication. But at present, we offer few if any alternatives to doing it on your own.