Cannabis Needs Rethinking As a Strategy in the Overdose Crisis

 Cannabis Needs Rethinking As a Strategy in the Overdose Crisis

Opioid use disorder treatment needs to take into account evolving cannabis policies, to help give people the best chances of recovery

The U.S. faces a devastating overdose epidemic, driven initially by pain pills and subsequently by heroin and the synthetic opioid fentanyl. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention i…