Could CBD Legalization Help End America’s Opioid Crisis?

Aaron Cadena
CBD Origin
Published in
7 min readJan 7, 2019

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America has a problem―a b̵i̵g̵ huge problem

A problem that’s been growing at an alarming rate over the last few decades, and is now responsible for the death of over 140 Americans every single day.

Opioid addiction.

Source: drpoorman.org

From prescription medication to heroin and synthetic opioids―the widespread misuse of both prescription and non-prescription opioids has evolved into such an issue that the Department of Health and Human Services declared it a public health crisis in 2018.

While numerous programs have attempted to solve the country’s opioid crisis throughout the years, the death toll has continued to rise…

With a grim future ahead if this problem goes unsolved, promising findings from several recent studies indicate that cannabis-derived Cannabidiol (CBD) could be the answer we need.

As CBD legalization continues to broaden, could this be the beginning to the end of America’s opioid epidemic?

A Brief Summary of America’s Opioid Epidemic

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Aaron Cadena
CBD Origin

CBD enthusiast, passionate writer, and Editor in Chief at CBDOrigin.com―the CBD community’s leading digital publication and online knowledge base.