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To: Nifster

“Prescribing fewer doses since people are not Doctor shopping to keep their addiction going.”

So pot helps opioid addicts control their addictive behavior?


28 posted on 07/24/2016 2:17:31 PM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: Magic Fingers

I don’t know about pot helping opiod addiction, but I saw an interesting program on NatGeo in which a former opiate addict was saying that a particular hallucinogen from Africa did.

I cannot recall if it came from a root or a tree or a mushroom, but it apparently causes an unpleasant and even dangerous trip that somehow shuts off opiate withdrawal in addicts, even in heroin addicts.

This guy would administer this drug in controlled situations to addicts in Canada where the drug is not illegal, but was not able to do it here in America where it is illegal.

Apparently use of this hallucinogen is not without risk either.

My attitude on opiates is stay away from them unless you have absolutely no other choice but to use them in order to manage severe pain.

Don’t want to get addicted to opiates.


31 posted on 07/24/2016 2:30:00 PM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: Magic Fingers

Maybe

Those studies are still being done

No where did I say anything tea or nay about marijuana as such

I commented solely on the nature of this study


46 posted on 07/24/2016 3:23:30 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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