Physicians considering combatting opioids with marijuana

Ohio physicians are hitting the round table to rethink how to curb the opioid crisis riddling the state. The Ohio Society of Interventional Pain Physicians will hold its first annual meeting in Cincinnati this weekend, according to The Dispatch.

On the agenda:

Alternatives to opioids
- non-opioid medication
- physical therapy
- psychological counseling
- spinal-cord stimulation
Ways to help people who become addicted
Use of marijuana as a possible treatment for pain

What physicians are trying to avoid is putting pain pills in the hands of patients. It’s an easy fix but in the long term, pain pills are largely to blame for heroin and other fentanyl and carfentanil addictions, Dr. Ricardo Buenaventura, the society’s president, told The Dispatch.

The organizer of the event happening in Cincinnati told the Dispatch that doctors face a rock and a hard place because they receive criticism when they do prescribe opioids as pain meds and also when they don’t prescribe them.

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