Opioid addiction kills nearly 40,000 Americans a year, and solutions to the crisis have become a pressing health issue for both medical officials and lawmakers across the country. With medical marijuana being an accepted and legal treatment for various ailments in more than half the U.S., some health professionals are arguing hard to add cannabis to the list of possible solutions to the opioid epidemic.
Per a CNN report, the state of Maine has one of the highest death rates related to opioid addiction. Over a four-year period from 2012 to 2016, the number of fatal overdoses increased 400 percent, a rate much faster than the national average.
Maine is also one of the many states with legal medical marijuana, and some experts feel the plant could help stem the rising tide of overdose deaths. Dr. Dustin Sulak, a Maine physician nationally recognized as a medical cannabis expert, has helped hundreds beat an addiction to opioids with pot.
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