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Opioid Use Among Older Adults By Sharon Liao Part of getting older means that you may deal with aches and pain. To treat pain, your doctor may prescribe an opioid. You’ll join a large group of older adults: As many as 9% of adults age 65 and older take an opioid for pain. Opioids are one of the strongest kinds of pain relievers. They can be very effective, especially for severe pain, says Cary Reid, MD, PhD, an associate professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York and a pain management researcher. But they also come with serious side effects, and older adults a...

It's controversial to many. is cannabis a gateway drug? >> i guess i'll start with that. dr. sanjay gupta joins us. i have two questions, is it a gateway drug and is it the answer? >> i don't think so. when people think of a gateway drug, they think your body has changed, your brain has changed somehow to make you crave harder and harder drugs. i don't think there's evidence of that, do people who start with marijuana sometimes take harder drugs? yes, but not because of a physiological change in their body that makes them crave those things. i think it could be a solution with this opioid epid...