After moving back to Oklahoma to care for his ailing mother, Dave became an unlikely victim of circumstance when he suffered an injury from which he would never fully recover. Despite a two decade-long track record of responsible opioid use authorized by his former physician, Dave was instructed to gradually reduce his dose if he […]
Senate Bill 1446
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Legal marijuana
Christmas came a few days early for me this year. After 11 days of waiting — or 18 years, depending on how you look at it — it was official. As of Dec. 22, I can now legally possess and consume cannabis in my home state. The critics were partially correct — the license was […]
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Doctor’s orders
With new dispensaries opening their doors weekly and harvests starting to fill shelves, would-be patients are scrambling to find doctors with openings and answers to their medical questions. As of Dec. 2, 22,571 patient applications have been received by Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority (OMMA) and 17,122 have been approved, according to its Twitter account. Several […]
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Painful consequences
In October, chronic pain sufferer Dan Freeman (not his real name) received a letter from his pain management doctor stating that a severance of treatment was necessary due to a new law on the horizon. “Please be advised,” the letter stated, “that this practice will no longer be able to treat you as a patient […]
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Stemming the tide
In April 2017, as the opioid crisis continued to ravage Oklahoma, the state’s Attorney General Mike Hunter stood beside two state lawmakers — Sen. AJ Griffin and Rep. Tim Downing — to announce formation of the Oklahoma Commission on Opioid Abuse. Three months later, a federal report issued by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental […]