Peter Grinspoon

Cognoscenti contributor

Peter Grinspoon M.D., is a primary care physician and a cannabis specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital and an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is the author most recently of "Seeing Through the Smoke: A Cannabis Expert Untangles the Truth about Marijuana."

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Peter Grinspoon, pictured in Newton in January 2019, returned to medicine after an addiction to opioids. (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

I returned to medicine after my opioid addiction. What I learned can help patients — and other physicians

My story is a cautionary tale, writes Peter Grinspoon. If we don’t address burnout and moral injury soon, we won't have enough doctors left; and those who remain won't be...

Cognoscenti

Aug 9, 2023