Is marijuana the answer to the opioid epidemic?
What we know for sure is that the United States is in the midst of an opioid epidemic that is killing tens of thousands of Americans each year. In 2016, 42,000 Americans died from heroin or opiate overdose, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
Record-breaking level of 12th graders say they’re more likely to use legal marijuana
Marijuana use is up in the last year among American middle-school and high-school students, and legalizing the drug likely would mean many more underage marijuana users, according to Monitoring the Future, one of the United States’ largest studies of...
Public agencies need to do more to communicate marijuana product recalls
Marijuana product recalls in Colorado are not consistently, widely or even transparently communicated to the public online — and that concerns a growing number of healthcare providers. Among them is Dr. Ken Finn, a Colorado Springs physician whose group...
Data don’t support claims U.S. has clogged jails with marijuana users
When discussing marijuana and THC, we often hear people express support for the drug’s legalization because they believe doing so would unclog American jails and prisons. That pervasive belief is just not supported by local, state and federal public records...Read the book
Clearing the Haze is a guide designed to help parents determine whether their child may have a substance problem and, if so, how to begin to address it. This book includes the voices and insight of experts in substance abuse counseling, young people in recovery, and parents who have lived the nightmare of adolescent addiction.
