Chronic pain: a new treatment path? (PART TWO)

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- Medical marijuana can now be used to treat chronic pain in New York state.
The amendment to the Compassionate Care Act was announced by the Department of Health in December. Some physicians feel this is a step towards kicking the opiate epidemic; others are skeptical.
“There’s two ways drugs are being approved in the United States right now,” said Dr. Richard Blondell, Vice Chair for Addiction Medicine at UB’s Jacobs School of Medicine.
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