Physicians considering combatting opioids with marijuana
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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.
Here are some recent headlines covering the opioid crisis:
- Middletown considering three strikes, you’re out for overdoses- Should Cbus?
- Franklin County overdose rate up 66 percent, new combative plan rolls out today
- Ohio sues opioid pain med manufacturers
- As opioid epidemic rages, Columbus officials suggest you should carry Naloxone
- Preliminary 2016 opioid overdose numbers released
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