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Ferre
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 Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 11:10 pm Post subject: Guide rejects cannabis as treatment for chronic pain |
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Another "bright" health minister...
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Guide rejects cannabis as treatment for chronic pain
25 August 2005
By KENT ATKINSON
Cannabis has no role in the treatment of acute pain - contrary to popular belief - according to new trans-Tasman guidelines designed to improve doctors' and patients' knowledge of pain relief options.
Although many experts believe cannabis may help relieve chronic (or long-term) pain, the guidelines launched in Sydney on Tuesday by Australian health minister Tony Abbott say solid scientific evidence now shows it has little efficacy with acute pain, the Australian newspaper reports.
Acute pain is defined as pain lasting up to two to three weeks after surgery, trauma or a medical condition such as kidney stones.
The previous edition of the guidelines by the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists and Faculty of Pain Medicine, published in 1999, had no position on the role of cannabis in acute pain.
Last year, David Buckle, a spokesman for Health Ministry medicines watchdog Medsafe, said New Zealand was waiting for a cannabis-based spray product, Sativex, to be licensed in Britain before it could be introduced here.
He said smoking cannabis for medical reasons would never be approved because smoking was damaging to health.
The spray's British developer, GW Pharmaceuticals Plc, said at the time that drug multinational Bayer had extended its option to license Sativex in Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
In April this year, Canada became the first country in the world to approve a cannabis-based painkiller when health bosses gave Sativex the green light for use. It was given approval for the symptomatic relief of pain in MS sufferers, and British medical authorities are currently considering a similar application. Doctors there hope the drug will then be approved for prescription for other types of chronic pain.
The Scotsman newspaper reported earlier this year that a breast cancer victim had made medical history as the first person in Scotland to be prescribed cannabis as a treatment for chronic pain.
Former nurse Jeanie Rae, 57, is taking a purified form of the controversial drug to treat agonising nerve damage in her right arm caused by an operation and radiotherapy to beat her cancer.
The pain left her virtually imprisoned in her home in Balfron, Stirlingshire, for nearly four years because she could not bare even the lightest touch. However, Sativex - used on her in a clinical trial by doctors at a Glasgow pain management clinic - allowed her to lead a normal life.
Each day Mrs Rae takes about 10 sprays of Sativex to ease her pain - less than a quarter of the maximum daily dosage but she noted it made her sleepy and hungry: "It gives me the munchies."
Dr Mick Serpell, the consultant who led the Sativex clinical trial, said the drug could help patients with few other choices: "We had some good results in our patients - it helped about one in three".
In Australia, the latest 346-page guidelines from the trans-Tasman college of anaesthetists lists paracetamol as an effective treatment for acute pain, but when more is required, a variety of options exist. These include "multimodal treatment" combining very small doses of drugs such as morphine and aspirin, and other drugs such as older tri-cyclic antidepressants, to target different pain receptors.
A small dose of ketamine before surgery can reduce the need for painkillers after operations, the Australian reported.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3388249a7144,00.html
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Funny how "a small dose of ketamine" is recommended. That stuff gives you an instant nightmare, for real. That will make you really flip out before an operation. (idiots)
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Pepper
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Ketamine= safe as PCP 
"multimodal treatment" or criminal "polydrug user" if one of them is an herb like cannabis (god forbid)
Cannabis=not good anesthetic (you mean it doesn't numb your brain like heroin?)
I read an article recently where they put people in a coma with Ketamine for 5 days as a "treatment" for chronic pain.
Here it is and right here in Pennsylvania. http://www.mapinc.org/safe/v05/n1371/a03.html |
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Don Quixote
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phew
the joseph mengele technique.gotta love these 'doctors.' i mean ketamine! multi-modal tratment!!!morphine!!! aspirin!!!these loons sound like crack crazed madmen not doctors.you have to admire their determination to ignore the best interests of their patient , the overwhelming body of evidence going back litteraly thousands of years proving cannabis is a highly effective pain treatment and sheer common sense.
hope they get good commision from the pharmacuticals for peddling their pills because there can be no other reason for ignoring the suffering of those human beings. |
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