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Research Links Legal Marijuana With Fewer Opioid Prescriptions

Can legalizing marijuana fight the problem of opioid addiction and fatal overdoses? Two new studies in the debate suggest it may. Pot can relieve chronic pain in adults, so advocates for liberalizing marijuana laws have proposed it as a lower-risk …

New Technologies Could Aid in Short Circuiting Chronic Pain

More than 100 million people in this country have pain that won’t go away. Many of these chronic pain sufferers fail to get relief from pills, shots and even surgery, while others temporarily trade the pain for side effects such …