{"id":22446,"date":"2022-11-30T10:30:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T15:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=22446"},"modified":"2022-11-30T10:30:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T15:30:09","slug":"side-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/side-effects\/","title":{"rendered":"Side Effects"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23f0f0f0&amp;d=dec22_flipbook_11.18-reduced&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=42&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Could cannabis save us from opioids?<\/h2>\n<p><b>By Siona Henze<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201c<\/b>I<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">f Oxy tabs had a little THC, this world would be a safer place.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Said the <\/span><strong>DEA<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, never.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But <\/span><strong>Falmouth<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-based integrative medicine physician <\/span><strong>Dustin Sulak<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> found in a 2020 survey of over 500 patients at three medical cannabis practices in <\/span><strong>Maine<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><strong>Massachusetts<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that 40 percent of patients with chronic pain stopped opioid use altogether when cannabis was added to their treatment plan; 45 percent reduced their opioid use; and 80\u201390 percent reported improved quality of life and ability to function. According to a review and analysis of 19 pre-clinical studies in the journal <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Neuropsychopharmacology<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, co-administration of THC with opioids can reduce the effective dose of morphine 3.6 times, and codeine 9.5 times.\u00a0 In other words, addictive doses of opioids are no longer needed for pain management.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22484\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/side-effects.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/side-effects.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/side-effects-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/side-effects-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/side-effects-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/side-effects-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/side-effects-620x324.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could cannabis save us from opioids?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1269],"class_list":["post-22446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-december-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22446"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22510,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22446\/revisions\/22510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}