There was a study done by the UCSF and their findings were in the area of people with chronic pain. These people are usually prescribed opiates to help with their pain and the study suggests that these patients may get greater relief if their doctors were to add cannabinoids or medical marijuana. They also found that if they combine medical marijuana with their opiates that it could result in reduced opiate dosages.
Rehabs in Alabama and other states have found that marijuana can be a gateway drug and often discourage any sort of legalization of the drug.
Of all the studies that are done in this country it is found that 76 million Americans suffer from chronic pain. That is pain that they have each day, it doesn’t just go away. According to the National Centers for Health Statistics there are more people with chronic pain than diabetes, heart disease and cancer combined.
Birmingham drug rehabs would say that chronic pain is probably one of the main contributing factors to drug addiction.
Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics published a paper this month telling of the interaction between cannabinoid and opiates in the first human study of its kind. What they found was that the combination of the two did reduce pain more than using opiates alone. This study also found that people may be able to get away with taking lower doses of the opiates for longer periods of time if they take them with medical marijuana. This would be good since opiates sometimes suppress the respiratory system. Many of the doctors who participated in the studies were motivated to find safe and effective treatments for chronic pain in their patients. These patients who participated in the study experienced no major side effects such as vomiting, nausea or loss of appetite.
