Guideline Weakly Supports Trying Cannabinoids for Chronic Pain medscape.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from medscape.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Dr. Wes Irwin
The opioid epidemic has reached epic proportions and continues to wreak havoc on millions of people’s lives.
Dr. Wes Irwin
In 2016, medical professionals wrote about 214 million opioid prescriptions for pain. That is 66.5 scripts per 100 people. More than 11 million of those patients ended up addicted to or abusing those drugs. And the worst part? A new study indicates that opioids are essentially useless for treating non-cancer related chronic pain.
HealthDay News wrote an article summarizing the surprising results of about 96 clinical trials on the use of potentially addictive opioids to treat chronic pain issues. In conclusion, opioids may work “only slightly better than placebos.” Shocking.
Doctors still reluctant to prescribe medical cannabis: McMaster eurekalert.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from eurekalert.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The confusion is understandable but there are several good reasons to cut through it. Raina Delisle Updated
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Every day, dozens of women across Canada visit the Facebook group SheCann: Empowering Canadian Women to chat about medical cannabis. Its almost 5,000 members spill the cannabis-infused tea on everything from the most effective products for period pain and migraines to how to bake the best bud brownies. They also share tips on the basics, like how to access medical cannabis in the first place and how to write it off on your taxes.
“Medical cannabis can be complicated and overwhelming,” says Ashleigh Brown, who founded the group. “Women can feel very alone and ashamed. SheCann is a safe space that allows them to get resources, information and support.”