{"id":5864,"date":"2016-04-14T22:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T22:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/?p=4657"},"modified":"2016-04-14T22:00:15","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T22:00:15","slug":"minnesota-doctor-recommends-medical-cannabis-to-break-opioid-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/minnesota-doctor-recommends-medical-cannabis-to-break-opioid-addiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Doctor Recommends Medical Cannabis To Break Opioid Addiction"},"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\/minnesota-doctor-recommends-medical-cannabis-to-break-opioid-addiction\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>A Minnesota doctor believes medical cannabis can help those struggling with opioid addiction and prevent future overdoses.<\/p>\n<p>Vireo Health&#8217;s Dr. Kyle Kingsley says cannabis is not killing people like opioids and it is not as addicting.<\/p>\n<p>Kingsley says in order to break the addiction, it is recommended that a patient slowly weenes off opioids then is gradually introduced to medical cannabis.<\/p>\n<p>Many people start taking opioids to relieve chronic pain then later find themselves building a tolerance and even transitioning to a drug like heroine.<\/p>\n<p>The Vireo Health CEO says, &#8220;That&#8217;s a pretty dangerous combination when the often end point is death with opioids and anytime you can decrease that dose and replace it with something that&#8217;s much less dangerous like medical cannabis that&#8217;s a good thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vireo Health plans to open a Moorhead, Minnesota location this June to dispense medical cannabis.<\/p>\n<p>The new location for Vireo Health will be 104 7th Street South.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned in June when we take you behind the scenes of this new medical cannabis dispenser.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/minnesota-doctor-recommends-medical-cannabis-to-break-opioid-addiction.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4658\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4658\" src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/minnesota-doctor-recommends-medical-cannabis-to-break-opioid-addiction.jpg\" alt=\"cannabis_opioids_painkillers-737-1\" width=\"737\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a>News Moderator: Robert Celt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">420 MAGAZINE \u00ae<\/a><br \/>\nFull Article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valleynewslive.com\/home\/headlines\/Minnesota-doctor-recommends-medical-cannabis-for-opioid-addiction-374836741.html\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Doctor Recommends Medical Cannabis To Break Opioid Addiction<\/a><br \/>\nAuthor: Natalie Parsons<br \/>\nContact: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valleynewslive.com\/station\/\" target=\"_blank\">Valley News Live<\/a><br \/>\nPhoto Credit: None found<br \/>\nWebsite: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valleynewslive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Valley News Live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Minnesota doctor believes medical cannabis can help those struggling with opioid addiction and prevent future overdoses.<br \/>\nVireo Health&#8217;s Dr.&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/2016\/04\/minnesota-doctor-recommends-medical-cannabis-break-opioid-addiction\/\" 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":[1614,9,1,3],"tags":[4182],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5864"}],"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=5864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}