Cannabis & Opiate Harm Reduction
Expert Panel Session | CNNC 2019
PANEL TOPIC:
Opioids: Pain & Addiction
Could cannabis help heal the opioid crisis?
States with medical cannabis laws have a 25% lower opioid overdose mortality rate compared with states without medical cannabis laws. In addition, medical cannabis saves Medicare about $165 million annually in prescription costs alone.
Unravel the truth about pain, prescribed medication, opioid addiction from an in-depth and expansive view of how cannabis is involved with reducing pain, reducing prescribed medication use, and reducing death due to overdose incidents.
Panel Experts
Uwe Blesching, PhD
A medical writer and regular contributor to the cannabinoid health sciences, mind-body medicine, phytopharmacology, as well as evidence-based illness prevention and treatment protocols.
Marcie Cooper RN, MSN, AHN-BC
Marcie first became interested in Cannabis Medicine as she saw an increase in patients using cannabis and knew she needed a better understanding. The knowledge gained was so profound, she found herself emerged in the science of cannabis.