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Ed: so, will this help or hurt? here to weigh in dr. john gordon chris stow. he specializes in pain management. good morning. >> good morning. ed: toe me about the surgeon general. he says we have to look at the studies. what is your belief about what the most recent studies have suggested about this. >> well, i think the most recent studies with respect to pain control suggests that medicinal cannabis can be useful for treating chronic pain. neuropathic pain conditions. h.i.v. neuropathy diabetic neuropathy or pain from multiple sclerosis. i think it can be useful. if you look in general at m...

Cowards. mind you these are people who work for him and from the president today no mention of john mccain or the comments. >> cecelia, thank you. as cecelia reported, the president late today visited the first lady. tonight i want to bring in abc's chief medical editor dr. ashton. so few details here. from what you heard in that report what can we surmise about the first lady's condition? we heard embolization. >> this is an invasive procedure. it's not a surgery. it's done by radiologists where they strategically block off part of the blood supply to the kidney. that's done either electively...

Educated. you have a large amount of physician who is are prescribing opioids that don't necessarily know what causes people to become addicted and what don't -- what does not, essentially we need to make sure they are not overprescribing opioids for pain that can be managed by tylenol, if they take it too long, the longer they take outside the increase risk to becoming addicted. physicians need to be aware and educating the fact that by shortening duration they are decreeing risk of people getting opioid addiction. heather: and i know that you and i discussed before alternative to drugs that ...

Ravaged by this epidemic. >> dr. wynn, how much of this goes back to training new doctors? the overprescription, the overprescribing we've seen in recent years specifically, how much of this goes back to training new doctors and just how we view and treat pain in this country? >> there is a supply and demand issue that we have to address in equal force. we have to stop the supply of drugs, whether it's heroin or fantanyl. i have to admit i didn't learn about the danger of opoids in my medical training and i'm sure i overprescribed to so many patients that should have gotten other methods of pa...

Pharmaceutical industry, the same industry that funds all the people in congress that are making it easier for them to do this. >> i think it's more complicated than that. >> steve: it's not that much more complicated. pharma releasing oxycontin in 1996 claiming the addictive properties of opioids were nothing to worry about. that was found to be a lie. they had to pay $600 million in fines because of the lie. >> there's an issue having to do with the conflict between drug control and pain control. it's an issue that was not invented by the pharmaceutical industry. there are lots of americans ...