Category: Cannabis

Cannabis, neuroscience, Research Articles

Hidden in Plain Sight: How Our Brain’s Endocannabinoid System Could Transform Pain Medicine

Opioids have a dual role in medicine, serving both as pain relievers and also their use may lead to addiction, complicating pain management conversations, especially for cancer patients. Recent research from Weill Cornell Medicine demonstrates a potential method to separate pain relief from addiction risk by manipulating brain compounds, offering hope for improved treatment strategies and quality of life. Continue reading Hidden in Plain Sight: How Our Brain’s Endocannabinoid System Could Transform Pain Medicine

Unknown's avatarMarcin Chwistek, MD
Cannabis, Research Articles

Cannabis and cancer pain. The search for relief continues.

There are a few basic observations (regulatory issues aside) that shape my thinking about the use of cannabis, cannabinoids, or cannabis-based medications (for simplicity, I’ll stick with “cannabis”) for pain. There is a significant interest among patients, especially patients with cancer, in using “cannabis” for a variety of clinical problems, with pain being the most commonly cited. According to a recent Canadian survey, 1 in … Continue reading Cannabis and cancer pain. The search for relief continues.

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