{"id":5690,"date":"2016-03-13T07:49:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T07:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/?p=4533"},"modified":"2016-03-13T07:49:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T07:49:41","slug":"former-red-wing-battles-alcoholism-with-medical-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/former-red-wing-battles-alcoholism-with-medical-marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Red Wing Battles Alcoholism With Medical Marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/former-red-wing-battles-alcoholism-with-medical-marijuana\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>After a history of alcoholism, former Red Wing great Darren McCarty found a way to battle his addiction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve used medical marijuana and it saved my life,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>McCarty said addiction has been a part of his life for years &#8211; alcoholism always seemed to win, until now.<\/p>\n<p>The former hockey player said he knows others might see this method as counterintuitive but said it&#8217;s just a matter of education and perception.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t mean you are getting well, it just means you are switching around deck chairs on the Titanic,&#8221; said Jeff Jay, an addiction specialist and author who also speaks from experience. &#8220;I went from being a national merit scholar to living under bushes in the city parks out in California. The only way I got better was because people helped me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Addiction specialists refer to this as cross addiction &#8211; a person switches out one substance, such as alcohol, for another, such as marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You need to go into a good inpatient setting where they can monitor you around the clock when you are coming off the substances,&#8221; Jay said.<\/p>\n<p>McCarty said he tried that, but found a better combination.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Through my journey, a lot of stuff that I&#8217;ve taken from that I apply to my life today,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Everybody&#8217;s different &#8211; you gotta find out what your program is. &#8230; My program involves medical marijuana because that&#8217;s what keeps me off alcohol.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although others argue it&#8217;s always best to go with a proven method such as total sobriety, McCarty said he views if one views medical marijuana like medicine rather than a recreational drug, it can work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/forums\/international-cannabis-news\/271319-former-red-wing-battles-alcoholism-medical-marijuana.html\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/former-red-wing-battles-alcoholism-with-medical-marijuana.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>News Moderator: Robert Celt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">420 MAGAZINE \u00ae<\/a><br \/>\nFull Article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/news\/local-news\/100176831-story\" target=\"_blank\">Former Red Wing Battles Alcoholism With Medical Marijuana<\/a><br \/>\nAuthor: Dave Spencer<br \/>\nContact: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/contact\" target=\"_blank\">Fox2<\/a><br \/>\nPhoto Credit: Getty Images<br \/>\nWebsite: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fox2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a history of alcoholism, former Red Wing great Darren McCarty found a way to battle his addiction.<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;ve used&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/2016\/03\/former-red-wing-battles-alcoholism-with-medical-marijuana\/\" class=\"read-more\">[Read More]<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1597,9,1,3],"tags":[4165],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}