Journal of Pain article: Low-dose pot eases neuropathic pain
Neuropathic pain is often described as one of the most intense and difficult to treat pains. Neuropathic pain is pain that affects the nerves themselves. People with diabetes can develop diabetic neuropathy, but others can develop neuropathic pain as well, particularly if they have a neurological disease like multiple sclerosis.
There has been much in the news lately about marijuana use for people living with chronic pain. The latest was published in the Journal of Pain, April edition.
A study of 38 people with neuropathic pain were randomized to smoke either high-dose marijuana, low-dose marijuana, or a placebo that had drug content. The findings showed that although the subjects who smoked both high- and low-dose marijuana experienced pain relief, the lower-dose group didn’t have the high feeling or impairments in areas like fine-motor coordination and memory as intensely as the higher-dose group did.
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Stay tuned next week for an interview with Carol S. Bott, RN, the author of the book How-To Marijuana: A Step-by-Step Guide to Medical Marijuana. We’ll have a book to give away as well.
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