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Anchor lead: How can we avoid emergency department visits related to edible cannabis products? Elizabeth Tracey reports Cookies, brownies, gummies…these types of cannabis products are behind the recent spike in emergency departments visits related to cannabis use. Ryan Vandry, a …
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Anchor lead: What’s behind increasing ED visits for cannabis? Elizabeth Tracey reports Many more people are turning up in emergency departments nationally with problems related to edibles, that range of products containing cannabis that are ingested. Ryan Vandry, a cannabis …
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Anchor lead: What are the possibilities when it comes to medicines for addiction? Elizabeth Tracey reports As deaths from opioids continue apace, figuring out how best to help people overcome addiction is more important than ever, with one recent study …
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Anchor lead: Should the antidote to opioids be prescribed along with the pain medicines? Elizabeth Tracey reports Naloxone, the drug used to reverse opioid overdoses, should be prescribed along with the powerful pain relievers, many advocacy groups believe. Eric Strain, …
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Anchor lead: How can we help people addicted to drugs without adequate numbers of providers? Elizabeth Tracey reports The journal Science has just reported that our problem with drug overdose deaths actually began in 1979, and has been rising steadily …
