Opioid Use Articles & Analysis
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Opioid-related addiction, overdose and death is a widespread public health crisis. ...
TheCBD-based drug could offer an appealing alternative to addictive opioids and milder painkillers to treat chronic pain. “We see CBD and possibly CBD analogs as giving us a different type of tool that’s not only safer than opioids, but may be more effective because it’s working in a different way,” said Sara Jane Ward, ...
One of the conclusions of the report is that the agency “cannot conclude that CBD is generally recognized as safe (GRAS) among qualified experts for its use in human or animal food.” Douglas Brenneman, who spent much of his career at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and who was a senior research ...
The CDC estimates that opioid addiction resulted in a record 72,000 drug overdose deaths in 2017 alone. ...