The safeness of marijuana when compared to alcohol has become front and center since the President’s comment comparing the two.
Here’s an article from USA Today that gives the two sides of the debate from a medical perspective.
Is it candy or cannabis? Oregon Poison Center says more kids are mistaking edibles for common household snacks Click here to be directed to the KPTV story, including comments from our own MRO Dr. Matthew Noble, MD.
With the growing concern over lung disease and damage from vaping, both with cannabis and nicotine products, sales are plunging in Oregon. See the entire Portland Business Journal story, written by Pete Danko, here.
A new synthetic (“designer”) drug has recently emerged, a powerful hallucinogen nicknamed “25I.” Commonly described as a “synthetic LSD,” this powerful synthetic has already claimed the lives of several young people, most recently, a 21 year old festival goer in New Orleans. Read about that overdose death here. Very little is known about this substance, technically…
News release from Oregon State Police – published by ‘FlashAlert’ on 10.24.19 at 12:38 pm. On October 23rd at about 3:00pm, an Oregon State Police (OSP) trooper stopped a 2015 Chevy Pickup on Hwy 140E near milepost 15 for a traffic violation. During the traffic stop the trooper obtained probable cause to search the…
The National Safety Council states that “No level of Cannabis Use is Safe or Acceptable” for Safety-Sensitive positions. Read the entire story, written by Kathryn J Russo with Jackson Lewis.com, here.
Are you concerned about how to address prescription drug abuse in the workplace? The misuse of prescription drugs (psychotherapeutics) is at epidemic proportions in the US. Current data indicate that we produce enough hydrocodone and oxycodone per year in this county to supply every citizen with 24 tabs of hydrocodone and 40 tabs of oxycodone.
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