Using Cannabis to Treat Opioid Addiction with Peter Grinspoon, MD

Dr. Peter Grinspoon is a primary care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School.  He is a Contributing Editor to Harvard Health Publications and the Harvard Health Blog, where he frequently writes about cannabis medicine issues. Dr. Grinspoon also writes about addiction, both from the perspective of a clinician treating the disorder and as someone who is in recovery from opioid addiction. We spoke a lot about how cannabis can be used to treat addiction in our conversation, as well as:  







Why Dr. Grinspoon believes all primary care providers should be knowledgeable about medical cannabisHow medical cannabis offers a safer alternative to medications used to treat chronic pain and insomnia  How years of anti-cannabis propaganda has tainted the medical cannabis conversationWhy both sides of the cannabis issue need to behave better when discussing the benefits and risks The five ways cannabis can help with the opioid crisis How prescription drug usage tends to drop in legal cannabis statesWhether cannabis itself is addictiveand more







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