week senator elizabeth warren send letter center disease control director thomas friedman letter warren urge begin consider medical marijuana way combat skyrocket rat opioid addiction.warren call cdc two things specifically letter warren want cdc work organizations fill gap government knowledge use uptake effectiveness medical marijuana alternative opioids pain treatment state legal warren also ask find impact legalization medical recreational marijuana opioid overdose deaths .the cdc website make clear problem patients overprescribed opiates deadly consequences society write period nine months tiny kentucky county few 12,000 people see 53-year-old mother 35-year-old son seven others die overdose prescription painkillers obtain pain clinics florida utah 13-year-old fatally overdose oxycodone pills take friend grandmother 20-year-old boston man die overdose methadone year friend also die prescription painkiller overdose.these isolate events day 44 people unite state die overdose prescription painkillers chronic pain number one reason people prescribe medical marijuana much progress make efforts legalize medical marijuana still long way go 27 state still yet legalize medical marijuana cdc find enough evidence come support legalization medical marijuana way curb opioid prescriptions would huge win medical marijuana advocates.featured image elizabethwarren.com elizabeth warren something amaze medical marijuana policy