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Opiates are probably not that risky and that we should use them more liberally. >> they dont wear off. >> it was the 1990s and doctors were seeing a lot of commercials like this one. >> these drugs which i repeat are our best, strongest pain medications should be used much more than they are for patients in pain. >> problem is, while they were fda approved for some kinds of pain, they were never intended to be used long term. >> we started to see patients who were prescribed opiates for their pa...

Marijuana legal. >> prop 215. >> allows the sick and dying to use medical marijuana for medical reasons. >> when it was legalized, i didnt jump on the bandwagon, saying im going to start using it. i was asking myself, are we going to make the same mistake? because there was not a lot of evidence with cannabis either at the time. >> but there was history. before marijuana was banned in the 1970s, it was used for more than a century as a treatment for many disorders, including leprosy, epilepsy an...

Fda. >> proved for some kinds of pain they were never intended to be used long term. >> started to see patients who were prescribed open ates for pain becoming addicted to those drugs. >> the director of the national institute on drug abuse believes that was the beginning of our opioid crisis. we knew that there was a danger. we knew that they werent as effective after a period of time and yet it still happened anyway. >> marketing. >> weve started questions whether we should be using opioids. b...

>> the director of the national institute on drug abuse believes that was the beginning of our opioid crisis. we knew that there was a danger. we knew that they werent as effective after a period of time and yet it still happened anyway. >> marketing. >> weve started questions whether we should be using opioids. but we didnt have a lot of good alternatives at the time. >> proposition 215 made medical marijuana legal. >> prop 215. >> allows the sick and dying to use medical marijuana for medical ...

Dont see why you shouldnt have access to it. >> when it came to defining who should have access to it, proposition 215, the 1996 ballot initiative that decriminalized medical marijuana in california purposely left things vague. >> it listed approximately ten conditions but then it said or any condition agreed upon by the physician and the patient where cannibus could be helpful. that leaves it between the doctor and the patient which is where it belongs. >> dr. alan frankel practiced internal me...