Posted on 11/15/2017 7:21:03 AM PST by dware
Colo.- - With opioid overdoses at an all time high nationwide, some Colorado patients have turned to another form of relief.
Marc Hood, of Paonia, said he began taking opiates back in 2003 after he was involved in a backhoe accident that left him practically crippled. "It’s the only way I’d be able to walk, to control the pain enough to be able to walk, to have any type of life with my kids.”
Hood said in order to manage the lasting pain from his injury, he constantly needed to take a number of different pain killers.
At one time he said he was taking 2,000 mg of morphine twice a day extended release, 45 mg of OxyContin, a total of 580 per month, 4 mg of Dilauded, a total of 120 a month, and 1400 mg of Gabapentin four times a day. “The amounts they had me one it was scary, I don’t know how I lived.”
These medications affected everything from his weight, to his ability to function, and ultimately drove a wedge between him and his wife. "He missed out on a lot. You couldn't talk to him, he'd nod off just like a heroin addict, very moody" said Marc's wife Kristen.
In fear of losing everything he's ever loved, including his own live, Hood decided to substitute his pain killers with medicinal cannabis, per a doctors recommendation.
(Excerpt) Read more at westernslopenow.com ...
Bet 90% of this market are seniors on Medicare and Medicaid.
That will work until your dopamine receptors become flaccid.
Many states with legal medical marijuana programs & the recreational states report that opioid use has dropped significantly. A big plus IMO.
Best way to avoid opioid overdoses: Don’t take opioids.
The educated professional doctors with diplomas from big money colleges are the ones who are killing these people by trying to regulate that much pain with that much opium.
#1 - “Gees, her just stopped breathing sometime last night?”
#2 - Must been the 2,000 mg of morphine twice a day extended release, 45 mg of OxyContin, a total of 580 per month, 4 mg of Dilauded, a total of 120 a month, and 1400 mg of Gabapentin four times a day. But I thought he was looking better, didnt you?
I wonder how much an effect drug use has on the water supply due to excretions of drugs in urine.
I feel sorry for this man and thank God for my overall good health at 65. May he find God's grace to deal with it and even be healed. If God did not restrain evil and intervene (though He must allow evil) the world would be worse than North Korea and wish they could be on drugs.
An opiate addict downgrading to marijuana?
Haha, haha, haha.
This is an article blatantly pushing recreational marijuana and I believe recreational marijuana should be legalized and taxed.
Opiates and opioids should never have been allowed to be prescribed by primary care physicians, period. The pharmaceutical companies knew this.
Were you born dense, or does it require practice?
It’s not marijuana
It’s THC and CBD
It can be a pill spray chocolate etc
The flowers are pretty and smell nice but that ain’t it no mo
Don’t take ILLEGAL DRUGS, as that is where most of the OD’s occur. Intractable Pain patients have NO CURES for their painful Conditions.
You missed my point.
The author doesn’t care that he’s lying about opiate addicts being “cured” through marijuana. He only cares about marijuana being legalized. Which I am all for. The headline might as well read “I like marijuana, legalize it.” Because all the rest is fluff.
The only people we should allow to prescribe opiates should have undergone extensive training in all aspects of the human body, a course of study lasting a period of not less than four years. Oh wait, I guess doctors already do that.
I was on massive doses for about four, or five months, getting off them about 14 months ago. I had a cyst from an infection near one of my vertebrae. I never knew what pain was until then.
Opioids are a blessing. They are a gift from God. Believe me.
I got off of them as soon as I was able. I had to taper. There was a penalty; it took several months after getting off of them before my head got right. (Maybe that was the Gabapentine) Now that I’m off I don’t want to ever have to take them, but you never know.
Why should a passel of junkies and derelicts be the main consideration concerning the availability of life-saving drugs? I hope the virtue-chasers will have pity on the rest of us and keep them reasonably available in the event that we ever need them.
You’re right!
You CAN get THC and CBD from other sources other than cannabis. On further research, most recreational dispensaries have shelves, display cases, and walls lined with jars containing pills, sprays, and chocolates containing it. In fact, I see no marijuana anywhere in any of the pictures I bring up of recreational marijuana.
Come on, really?
I read that someone suggested making lethal dose Carfentanil pills, and then offer them, in a one shot deal, to prisoners either on death row or facing life imprisonment. If they voluntarily decided to take the pill, their death would be recorded as being of natural causes. And their remains would be cremated.
Another actual gift from God:
29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. - Genesis 1:29-30 (KJV)
Why should a passel of junkies and derelicts be the main consideration concerning the availability of life-saving drugs?
My uncle was on opioids for a little over 2 years after a severe work accident. They made him a total zombie, at least, until his body had enough of them and he passed away.
Opioids should be an option - a last resort, even - but should always be made available. However, to close one's mind off from anything else being an option, including cannabis, is nothing short of ignorant.
It’s already legalized in Colorado, dummie.
Really? No way!
This article has nothing to do with the other 40 some states that it isn’t legalized in though does it? None at all.
Jack ass.
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