Is there any way to know?
If marijuana is used for pain relief (as people say), has there been any drop in the number of prescriptions written for opiates like hydrocodone, vicoden, etc.?
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Has medical marijuana reduced the reliance on opiates for pain relief in states that have medical mj?
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#1 by jilllpilll on October 29th, 2011
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It is hard to say, since both are taken for recreation as well as medicinal
#2 by Julzz33 on October 30th, 2011
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Unfortunately, no it hasn’t, at least where I live! I live in California, where marijuana for pain is legal, but the use of Vicodin and Oxycodone (Percocet) is at an all-time high! They’re having so much trouble with overuse of these drugs that they’re starting to prosecute the doctors writing the scripts.
I have chronic pain myself, and find mj extremely ineffective, so I don’t use it. I think many people feel the same – I know several people on mj that also take other narcotics with it (vicodin, etc.) but don’t know too many people who have said it reduced their reliance on other pain meds.