Addiction & Alcoholism

Medical Cannabis Can Help America’s Opiate Crisis

Dr. Dustin Sulak on a neglected treatment option for opioid addiction: medical marijuana.

Hooked on Weed? Try Nicotine Instead

Dry and green tobacco leaf on cut tobacco background
In its ongoing search for alternatives to recreational cannabis, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has been funding research into much more dangerous and addictive drugs — ostensibly to help people ween off cannabis. Recently NIDA supported a clinical trial which used nicotine as a therapy for relatively mild cannabis withdrawal symptoms.

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