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Study: Long-Term Cannabis Use Associated With Improved Pain Relief, Reduced Opioid Use

for_painISRAEL–(ENEWSPF)–February 23, 2016.  The long-term, daily use of cannabis is associated with improved analgesia and reduced opioid use in patients with treatment-resistant chronic pain conditions, according to clinical trial data reported online ahead of print in The Clinical Journal of Pain.

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Investigators with Hebrew University in Israel evaluated the use of cannabis on pain in a cohort of 176 patients, each of whom had been previously unresponsive to all conventional pain medications. Subjects inhaled THC-dominant…

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