HIGHLY ADDICTIVE PILLS.
POLICE ARE TRYING TO FIGURE AT
THIS ROBBERIES CONNECTED TO A
SIMILAR ONE OF THE HIGHLAND
PARK TARGET PHARMACY LAST FALL.
IT IS A GROWING PROBLEM IN
MINNESOTA PROSECUTOR, THE CDC
SAYS BETWEEN 14,000 AND 60,000
PEOPLE DIE EVERY YEAR AS A
RESULT OF THEIR ADDICTION TO
PRESCRIPTION PAINKILLERS.
THESE ADDICTIONS ALSO BE TO
HEROIN USE AND HERE IN
MINNESOTA 342 PEOPLE HAVE DIED
FROM HEROIN OVERDOSE SINCE
2000.
NOW MEDICAL RESEARCHERS THINK
THEY HAVE FOUND A NEW WAY TO
HELP BREAK THE ADDICTION.
IT IS BY USING MEDICAL
MARIJUANA.
PEOPLE OFTEN DIE FROM
OPIATES AND OPIATES ARE HIGHLY
ADDICTIVE, THOSE ARE TWO
CHARACTERISTICS THE CANNABIS
DOESN'T HAVE AS A MEDICINE.
DR. KYLE KINGSLEY IS A CO OF
MINNESOTA MEDICAL SOLUTIONS,
ONE OF THE TWO MANUFACTURERS OF
MEDICAL MARIJUANA IN MINNESOTA
AND HE BELIEVES THAT MEDICAL
CANNABIS CAN HELP PEOPLE WHO
HAVE BECOME ADDICTED TO
PRESCRIPTION PAINKILLERS LIKE
OXYCODONE, MORPHINE AND
HYDROMORPHONE AS WELL AS
HEROIN.
POLICE OR PEOPLE THINK IT IS
SWAPPING OUT ONE FOR ANOTHER
INTO SWAPPING OUT MUCH LESSER
EVIL FOR SOMETHING KILLING
16,000 PEOPLE YEAR, PEOPLE ARE
NOT DYING FROM THC MARIJUANA
OVERDOSES.
IN MINNESOTA MEDICAL
MARIJUANA CAN ONLY BE SOLD AS A
PILL, LIQUID OR AN OIL AND
BEGINNING THIS AUGUST TO BOTH
CURRENT PAIN WILL BE ABLE TO
GET PRESCRIPTION IF THEY ARE
CERTIFIED BY THE DOCTORS.
MANY FOLKS ARE ALREADY TAKING
PRESCRIPTION PAINKILLERS BUT
THERE IS MOUNTING EVIDENCE
THAT CANNABIS OF THE SETTING OF
CHRONIC PAIN ELSE PEOPLE REDUCE
THEIR OPIATE USE AND THERE IS
ALSO SOME ANALYSIS THAT SHOW
DRAMATIC REDUCTION IN THE
NUMBER OF OPIATE OVERDOSE
DEATHS IN STATES WITH MEDICAL
MARIJUANA.
THE SUMMER DR. KINGSLEY
COMPANY WILL BEGIN AN
OBSERVATIONAL STUDY WITH A
MINIMUM OF 100 PATIENTS.
SPIRIT WE DO NOT HAVE ANY GREAT
WAY TO GET PEOPLE OFF OPIOIDS
EASILY. DR. CHARLES RESNICK
OFF TREAT ADDICTION PATIENTS.
THIS CANNABIS PROGRAM IS AN
EXPERIMENTAL TRIAL.
I THINK PEOPLE NEED TO KEEP
THAT IN MIND.
THIS IS NOT A PROVEN THERAPY.
IF IT WORKS THAT WOULD BE
GREAT.
BUT WE DO NOT KNOW IF THE
WORKER NOT.
THE LATEST NUMBER FROM THE
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SHOWS THAT
