In this episode, we talk with Dr. Rachna Patel who has been in the field of Medical Cannabinoids since 2012, after spending years training as an Emergency Medicine doctor. She completed her undergraduate studies at Northwestern University (IL) and earned her medical degree from Touro University (CA). In 2014, she opened her own practice so that she could offer people care they otherwise wouldn’t have access to. In 2019, she wrote The CBD Oil Solution, published by Penguin Random House and in 2020, Dr. Patel became the CEO of her own CBD company, Doc Patels. Dr. Patel’s knowledge of CBD Oil has made her an asset in the specialty. She has been interviewed on over 200 podcasts, has taken the stage internationally to spread awareness, has been featured in articles for Lifehacker and MindBodyGreen and has appeared on major news networks such as NBC.

Topics/main points: Using CBD to combat the opioid epidemicDifferent conditions CBD can help with and the results Dr. Patel has seen in those she has treatedThe importance of lab results and how to tell if a CBD is of high-quality

Guest - Dr. Rachna Patelwww.docpatels.com

Host - Hillary Blackburn, PharmD, MBAwww.npr.center https://www.linkedin.com/in/hillary-blackburn-67a92421/ @nprcenter for Instagram and Twitter