Could marijuana help treat painkiller and heroin addiction?

Tuesday, April 26, 2016 - 10:01 in Health & Medicine

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- The growing number of patients who claim marijuana helped them drop their painkiller habit has intrigued lawmakers and emboldened advocates, who are pushing for cannabis as a treatment for the abuse of opioids and illegal narcotics like heroin, as well as an alternative to painkillers....

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