marijuana dispensaries have seen lower opioid prescription rates and fewer deaths from opioid overdoses. fewer. not greater. we re going to be looking at 64,000 deaths in 16. we got to stop the deaths. both former governor chris christie and former congressman patrick kennedy served on president trump s commission on combating addiction and the opioid crisis. so i had assembled a whole litany of recommendations for better mental health and addiction for this country. kennedy has been very public about his own addiction and recovery. i was on suboxone for a number of years. it definitely stabilized me. when someone is out there in the throes of opioid addiction it is 100% sure that if you give them opioid replacement therapy you get them stabilized. for kennedy and the rest of the opioid commission, the best way to save lives is expanded access to m.a.t., medication
a gateway, it can be a terminus. it can stop drug use. these are the researchers who write the books, advance the science, grow our knowledge and they are seeing an increasing body of research suggesting marijuana can actually stop addiction and help offset the opioid epidemic. a rand corporation study funded by the national institute on drug abuse showed something few initially expected. between 1999 and 2010, states with league functioning medical marijuana dispensaries have seen lower opioid prescription rates and fewer deaths from opioid overdoses. fewer. not greater. we re going to be looking at 64,000 deaths in 16. we got to stop the deaths. both former governor chris christie and former congressman patrick kennedy served on president trump s commission on combating addiction and the opioid crisis. so i had assembled a whole litany of recommendations for
getting my life back. cannabis is opposed to being a gateway is a termis and stop drug use. these are the researchers who write the books, advance the science, grow our knowledge and they are seeing an increasing body of research suggesting marijuana can actually stop addiction and help offset the opioid epidemic. a rand corporation study funded by the national institute on drug abuse showed something few initially expected. between 1999 and 2010, states with league functioning medical marijuana dispensaries is seen lower opioid prescription rates and fewer deaths from opioid overdoses. fewer. not greater. we re going to be looking at 64,000 deaths in 16. we got to stop the deaths. both former governor chris christie and former congressman patrick kennedy served on president trump s commission on combatting addiction and the
variation. they believe some of it may have to do with access to resources, opioid prescription rates tend to be higher in areas where people are have higher rates of not being insured or higher rates of unemployment. people who live in smaller towns, they say, may have less access to physical therapy or other alternative forms of pain management. so they have to rely on the meds. the cdc also found that prescription practices are so inconsistent that some counties are prescribing opioids at six times the rate of other counties. now, shep, some states are trying to crack down on opioid abuse, trying to find the abusers before things get completely out of hand. here in georgia, they recently passed a law requiring pharmacists to report any controlled substance prescriptions that they fill within 24 hours. listen. the georgia pharmacists, the
fox news sunday. molly: a fox news alert on the opioid crisis, the cdc releasing new statistics showing doctors are prescribing the drugs at triple the rate of just eight years ago. hi, molly. if you suffer from pain, the chances that a doctor prescribes you and opioid depends at least in part on where you live. take a look at this map, a new study from the center for disease control found higher opioid prescription rates in areas with high unemployment and small towns. residents in some counties are prescribed a six times more opioid painkillers than those in other counties. the level of prescribing in 2015 was enough for every american to be on opioid medications around the clock for three weeks. that is just too much. in 2010, the amount of