Managing Pain
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About Managing Pain
A common-sense, encouraging guide to combating pain draws on the principles of natural healing and alternative medicine to help alleviate pain, explaining how to prevent or relieve it through simple lifestyle changes, determine the proper source of treatment, when to seek medical help, and more.
Medicinal cannabis helps cancer pain - study
Medicinal cannabis can help relieve pain caused by cancer and reduce The Number of drugs patients need, Canadian research suggests.
In a study of 358 cancer patients, researchers concluded it was a safe option for Managing Pain , alongside other drugs.
Only specialist hospital doctors can prescribe cannabis-based medicines on the NHS, mostly for severe epilepsy.
Research on how well they treat pain is still being collected in the UK.
, published in BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, researchers found medicinal cannabis to be " a safe and effective complementary treatment for pain relief in patients with cancer".
Products with an equal balance of the active ingredients tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD) seemed to be The Most effective.
Cannabis plants contain both - But while THC produces a " high" CBD does not.
Of the patients studied:
The Most common side-effects were:
The researchers, from Mcgill University , in Montreal, Harvard Medical School , in Boston and The Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, Among Others , say about a third of all cancer patients and two-thirds of those who are terminally ill experience moderate to severe pain.
Painkillers are The Standard treatment - But a third of cancer patients are still thought to experience pain.
Every three months for a year, the patients were asked:
After taking the cannabis medicines, they felt much less pain and noticed it interfering less with their daily life.
But more rigorous trials using a control group to compare The Effects of cannabis medicines with a dummy drug are needed to confirm the findings, the researchers say.
It is very rare But since 2018 UK law has allowed the prescription of unlicensed cannabis-based medicines in very specific circumstances:
says:
A Department of Health and Social Care official said: " Licensed cannabis-based medicines are funded routinely by the NHS where there is clear evidence of their quality, safety and effectiveness.
" Like any other medicine, unlicensed cannabis-based products for medicinal use must be proved safe and effective before they can be considered for routine NHS funding.
" We Are working closely with partners to establish clinical trials to test the safety and efficacy of more cannabis-based products for medicinal use to inform future NHS funding decisions. "
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com