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Title: Survey: Pain patients overwhelmingly prefer medical marijuana over opioids
Source: ArsTechnica
URL Source: https://arstechnica.com/science/201 ... edical-marijuana-over-opioids/
Published: Jun 29, 2017
Author: Beth Mole
Post Date: 2017-06-29 12:14:32 by Tooconservative
Keywords: None
Views: 12283
Comments: 46

Of those who used both opioids and cannabis, 92% say they prefer the latter.

When patients have a choice between opioids and medical marijuana for a painful condition, an overwhelming majority say they prefer marijuana, that it works just as well, and has fewer side effects, a new survey finds.

Though the survey, involving 2,897 medical cannabis patients, didn’t track actual drug use or efficacy, the findings fits with previous data. Decades of research suggest marijuana is effective for pain treatment. And recent studies have found that in states with medical marijuana availability, there are fewer opioid overdose deaths and doctors fill fewer opioid prescriptions.

The authors of the new survey, led by Amanda Reiman of the University of California, Berkeley, say the data furthers the need to examine marijuana as a “viable substitute for pain treatment,” particularly in light of the devastating opioid epidemic now gripping the country. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that opioids killed more than 33,000 Americans in 2015, and estimates that 91 people in the US die each day from the highly addictive drugs.

Though people using marijuana can develop use disorders, it is virtually impossible to die of an overdose—no marijuana overdose deaths have ever been reported to the Drug Enforcement Administration.

“A society with less opioid dependent people will result in fewer public health harms,” the authors of the new study note.

For their survey, the researchers partnered with (but were not paid by) HelloMD, an online community for medical cannabis patients. Of the 2,897 patients recruited for the survey, 63 percent were using marijuana for pain-related conditions, such as fibromyalgia, back pain, and arthritis. About 30 percent, or 841 patients, also reported using an opioid currently or in the past six months.

Of those 841, 92 percent agreed or strongly agreed with the statement that they preferred cannabis over opioids for their condition. And 93 percent agreed or strongly agreed that they were more likely to pick cannabis over opioids if both were readily available. Most also said that cannabis was just as effective at relieving pain as opioids, with 71 percent agreeing or strongly agreeing with the statement. Last, 97 percent agreed or strongly agreed that they could cut down on opioid use if cannabis is available.

The researchers found similar results when they asked about non-opioid pain medication use (see data above).

The survey has limitations. It’s pulling from a self-selected group of cannabis users, for one, so they may be biased. The survey data also doesn’t include actual drug use data or efficacy, just perceptions, which may be skewed.

Researchers need more data to make firm conclusions. But with the data available, the authors suggest that “providing the patient with the option of cannabis as a method of pain treatment alongside the option of opioids might assist with pain relief in a safer environment with less risk.”

Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, 2017. DOI: 10.1089/can.2017.0012  (About DOIs).


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#2. To: Tooconservative (#0)

This type info is heresy to the holy war crusaders who have demonized the plant literally as something not of God's making, but of Satan's. The plant itself is evil, in their black and white way of thinking, and absolutely no good can come of it at all. Marijuana is pure evil because Congress declared it as such.

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This type info is heresy to the holy war crusaders who have demonized the plant literally as something not of God's making, but of Satan's.

The plant itself is evil, in their black and white way of thinking, and absolutely no good can come of it at all. Marijuana is pure evil because Congress declared it as such.

I think there's the 60s stoners stereotype that c3rtain over-officious Major Burns-types can't process. By now, most of us recognize Congress for what it has become: Whores-For-Hire.

In THIS medicinal form of MJ, Congress need only be convinced by a few brown paper bags of $$ to change their mind; "Public Safety" is rarely a consideration (as we've witnessed by frivolous PD traffic stops, dangerously quick-changing traffic lights, and selective law enforcement where money or position dictates "justice.")

Liberator  posted on  2017-06-29   14:29:24 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Liberator (#8)

I think there's the 60s stoners stereotype that c3rtain over-officious Major Burns-types can't process.

For a lot of people, that stereotype was all they knew about. And a lot of those old hippie stoners deserved their reputation, you have to admit.

Tooconservative  posted on  2017-06-29   14:43:23 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: Tooconservative (#10)

For a lot of people, that stereotype was all they knew about. And a lot of those old hippie stoners deserved their reputation, you have to admit.

Images of Woodstock, colorful attire and VW buses painted with peace signs come to mind. Of course that was all in contrast to the rising influence of corporate powers over the federal government which may have been behind the Vietnam disaster, the cold war with Russia and the production of thousands of nuclear missiles. The 1960's also saw a very significant increase in federal taxation which enabled much greater concentration of federal power which in the 50's was quite light. And that federal growth then is what is lamented today, at least among people who don't call themselves democrats.

So the hippies of the 60's had cause for the new culture which they formed. Surely, MJ was only a small part of that, and perhaps as much of a symbol of rebellion as a personal source of enjoyment.

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