[HTML][HTML] Practical strategies using medical cannabis to reduce harms associated with long term opioid use in chronic pain

CA MacCallum, L Eadie, AM Barr, M Boivin… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background: Chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP) is estimated to affect 20% of the adult
population. Current United States and Canadian Chronic non-cancer pain guidelines …

Medical cannabis for the reduction of opioid dosage in the treatment of non-cancer chronic pain: a systematic review

BO Okusanya, IO Asaolu, JE Ehiri, LJ Kimaru… - Systematic reviews, 2020 - Springer
Background Medical cannabis (MC) is currently being used as an adjunct to opiates given
its analgesic effects and potential to reduce opiate addiction. This review assessed if MC …

Opioid-sparing effects of medical cannabis or cannabinoids for chronic pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised and observational studies

A Noori, A Miroshnychenko, Y Shergill, V Ashoorion… - BMJ open, 2021 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective To assess the efficacy and harms of adding medical cannabis to prescription
opioids among people living with chronic pain. Design Systematic review. Data sources …

[HTML][HTML] Medical cannabis use is associated with decreased opiate medication use in a retrospective cross-sectional survey of patients with chronic pain

KF Boehnke, E Litinas, DJ Clauw - The Journal of Pain, 2016 - Elsevier
Opioids are commonly used to treat patients with chronic pain (CP), though there is little
evidence that they are effective for long term CP treatment. Previous studies reported strong …

[PDF][PDF] Medical Cannabis Used as an Alternative Treatment for Chronic Pain Demonstrates Reduction in Chronic Opioid Use–A Prospective Study

G Benedict, A Sabbagh, T Conermann - Pain Physician, 2022 - painphysicianjournal.com
Background: Chronic opioid therapy (COT) has been used to treat many chronic pain
conditions even with poor evidence for its long-term effectiveness. Medical cannabis has …

Patients' and clinicians' perspectives of co-use of cannabis and opioids for chronic non-cancer pain management in primary care

AC Cooke, KR Knight, C Miaskowski - International Journal of Drug Policy, 2019 - Elsevier
Background The prevalence of opioid-associated morbidity and mortality underscores the
need for research on non-opioid treatments for chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP). Pain is the …

[PDF][PDF] A survey on the effect that medical cannabis has on prescription opioid medication usage for the treatment of chronic pain at three medical cannabis practice …

KM Takakuwa, D Sulak - Cureus, 2020 - cureus.com
Objective: The opioid epidemic continues to claim thousands of lives every year without an
effective strategy useful in mitigating mortality. The use of medical cannabis has been …

Pharmacokinetics, safety, and tolerability of a medicinal cannabis formulation in patients with chronic non-cancer pain on long-term high dose opioid analgesia: A pilot …

Y Bonomo, A Norman, L Collins, H O'Neill, P Galettis… - Pain and Therapy, 2022 - Springer
Introduction This phase I open-label study examined pharmacokinetics, safety, and
tolerability of escalating doses of a novel combination cannabinoid medication (1: 1 …

The association between cannabis use and aberrant behaviors during chronic opioid therapy for chronic pain

DJ DiBenedetto, VF Weed, KM Wawrzyniak… - Pain …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Objective Health care providers are likely to see an increase in the concomitant use of
cannabis and opioids, particularly with the increased liberalization and ongoing research …

Medical cannabis: effects on opioid and benzodiazepine requirements for pain control

M O'Connell, M Sandgren, L Frantzen… - Annals of …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: There is currently little evidence regarding the use of medical cannabis for the
treatment of intractable pain. Literature published on the subject to date has yielded mixed …