The legalization of the use of cannabis for medical purposes in the United States reduced the number of opioid overdoses
Opinion polls, and view a huge number of US medical professionals practicing evidence that psychoactive hemp could become widely available and safe, able to replace painkillers based on opium alkaloids.
Until recently, the opiate painkillers which are released in each pharmacy by prescription, considered to be a universal and safe cure for people suffering from chronic pain caused by a variety of serious diseases like cancer, AIDS, etc. But, unfortunately, the public is deeply mistaken about the safety of this type of drugs, and now the United States is in the middle of a wave of opioid addiction caused by light users access to the drugs, causes them physical dependence. In addition, depending tablets with painkillers can also cause consumers many different side effects that affect the physical and mental health of people consumed, not to mention the fact that they can carry a very high risk of fatal overdose. The state structure, previously gave their approval for the release of drugs based on opium alkaloids on the open market, and now advises doctors across the country to prescribe "dangerous drugs" only in the most extreme and severe cases.
At the same time, the United States continues to increase public interest in the medical cannabis, which since April 2016 has become officially available to consumers in 24 states of the country. Statistics show themselves to doctors, most people turn to hemp medicine to combat chronic pain sensations. According to experts of the American pharmacological market, ordinary consumers have seen in cannabis safer for themselves an alternative to drugs based on opium constituents and decided to actively switch to it.
Data on mortality in different regions of the country show that in the period from 1999 to 2010, in the states where the psychoactive cannabis has been officially approved for sale and use, the death of the inhabitants of overdose drugs containing opium ingredients, the average falls to 25%, which not observed in states still adhering to strict forms of criminalization of cannabis.
Opinion polls, and view a huge number of US medical professionals practicing evidence that psychoactive hemp could become widely available and safe, able to replace painkillers based on opium alkaloids. Such conclusions were made by an independent research, with its authors were guided by the data taken during the period when the US black market is not a new wave of heroin addiction (which may well feed became more difficult access to legal opiates).
Some representatives of the scientific and medical community believe that the psychoactive cannabis should be used as a means of therapy for psychological and physical dependence on the drug.
Comment of the Association "Ukrainian industrial hemp"
Best practices of Israel, as well as a number of other countries in Europe and North America, shows that with the use of psychoactive constituent of cannabis, treat heroin, cocaine, and dependence on synthetic and medicinal products. And unlike replacement therapy was widely spread in our country, drug-dependent person is "transplanted" to him on a synthetic drug needle, and a man without relieve withdrawal symptoms of addiction to the body's alternative cannabinoids.
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