Prescribing marijuana for chronic pain.
Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: Cet article se trouve aussi en français à la page 659. Prescribing marijuana for chronic pain Roger Ladouceur MD MSc CCMF FCMF, ASSOCIATE SCIENTIFIC EDITOR In this month’s issue we learn that marijuana, when smoked, is of questionable efficacy for managing chronic noncancer pain (CNCP). Deshpande et al reach this conclusion in a systematic review of ran-domized controlled trials, with the goal of evaluating the efficacy and safety of this substance in the treat-ment of CNCP (page e372).1 Their conclusions are unequivocal: generalizing the use of medical marijuana to all CNCP conditions is not supported. The studies available were limited by short duration, variability in dosing and strength of tetrahydrocannabinol, and lack of functional outcomes. These results do not come as a surprise. Indeed, this study has simply confirmed what most of us thought:
Source: Europe PMC (PubMed Central)
Author: Roger Ladouceur
Language: French
Subfield: Pharmacology (medical)
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1956874905