Steamboat health care professionals are skeptical about the bill to treat chronic pain News | August 24, 2019 A new law allows Colorado doctors to recommend medical marijuana to treat pain in cases where they would otherwise prescribe opioids. While lawmakers saw it as a solution to the state’s opioid crisis, health experts in Steamboat said…
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Congress Needs an Opioid Intervention
J. RICH | From the November 2018 Issue (GeorgePeters/iStock) In an effort to “combat the opioid crisis” in America, Congress is calling for a slate of governmental interventions that have been tried, tested, and shown to cause more harm. In June, the U.S. House of Representatives passed 50 bills, with more to come, that throw billions of…

