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,Iedical marijuana helps patients with opioid addiction-CNN https://www.cnn.com/20l 8/04/29/health/medical-marijuana-opioids/in. <br /> Health + Live TV U.S. Edition + <br /> drop, no puff [that] can completely solve this problem," <br /> O Sulak told Gupta. "But cannabis, when it's used in the <br /> right way, can take a big bite out of it." <br /> Sulak is a doctor of osteopathic medicine. He says he <br /> has treated hundreds of people with marijuana to <br /> ,,_=4-AN„, wean them off opioid painkillers. He runs two <br /> outpatient clinics in Maine and started looking to <br /> marijuana as a potential solution when he noticed that <br /> a number of his patients were able to sustain their <br /> Related Video: This is your brain on pain opioid dosages for years, never asking for more. <br /> 01.39 Production of natural opioids is triggered when the <br /> body experiences pain. But opioid medications can act <br /> as a signal to the body to stop producing endorphins; it <br /> instead becomes more and more reliant on the drugs. When the person takes more opioids, that increases <br /> the risk for overdose. <br /> Sulak was curious as to why some of his patients didn't <br /> f need to increase their opioid doses, so he asked them <br /> what was different. "The answer was that they were <br /> . " !vim 4* € a using opioids in combination with cannabis. And they <br /> ` felt that it made the opioids stronger." <br /> •No Sulak's review of the medical literature resulted in the <br /> k. ,. same conclusion. He points out that when opioids are <br /> +> used in combination with cannabis in animals, <br /> "' marijuana can boost an opioid's effectiveness without <br /> requiring higher dosages. <br /> Related Article: Dr. Sanjay Gupta to Jeff Stinker is now a patient of Sulak's integrative health <br /> practice. Instead of taking 25 pills a day, she <br /> Sessions: Medical marijuana could save supplements smoking a gram of marijuana every three <br /> many addicted to opioids or four weeks with marijuana tinctures, oils and vapor. <br /> She also uses a drug called naltrexone to help with her <br /> autoimmune-related issues. <br /> She credits her life now to cannabis and wants others to know about it. "I want people to know that they <br /> have options. Do not be afraid to tell your doctor that you do not want these chemicals in your body," she <br /> said. <br /> ' I don 't think I would be alive today if I didn't <br /> have it' <br /> Doug Campbell, another patient of Sulak's, agrees that cannabis is a real alternative. "I don't think I would <br /> be alive today if I didn't have it," he said. <br /> ,f 5 5/1/2018. 1:25 PN <br />