Medical Marijuana Called an Issue for Case Managers to Watch

Workers’ comp case managers should start taking a closer look at medical marijuana as an alternative to opioids for managing injured workers’ pain, a One Call Care Management vice president told an audience at the 2017 Case Management Society of America conference in Austin, Texas, this week. “With over 15,000 people dying each year from overdoses of prescription painkillers, case managers need to understand the potential for medical marijuana to serve as an alternative,” said Kevin Glennon, One Call’s vice president of clinical programs. Small-scale studie...