Chronic pain affects >100 million Americans, and costs an estimated $635 billion dollars per year in the US alone.22 However, treating chronic pain is difficult, and many pharmacological options only work in a subset of patients due to inadequate pain relief or side effects that preclude use.10,17 In the context of the ongoing opioid crisis, which claimed ∼42,000 lives in 2016,19 many individuals with chronic pain are seeking alternative medications for pain management. Cannabis is a promising analgesic for many chronic pain conditions, with recent meta-analyses of clinical trials suggesting that cannabis or cannabinoids may be effective for chronic pain management,46 though this effect was mostly seen in neuropathic pain.
from The Journal of Pain http://bit.ly/2S9lJJ1
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