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Medical Cannabis and the Comparison to Pain Meds
The problem with many people today, is their #addiction to opioids. This is something that can play a major role in a person’s life, and the cool thing about #cannabis, is that it reduces the instances of this.
There are even studies that show that those who have chronic pain will choose marijuana over the pain medications, since it’s more available, with less risks. There is also ongoing information that adds further insights onto the trends, and the possible value of #medical #cannabis for your ability to recover from #opioids.
The Issue with pain Meds
The problem with the current opioids is pretty obvious. This is something that was found pretty early on in the 1800s, especially with the discover of morphine by the Sumerians, who were able to find that the opium derivatives as well known as #heroin and #morphine were called wonder drugs. The thing is though, this is left uncontrolled, leading to insane levels of addiction, and eventual substance regulations as a result.
When the 20th century hit, there were then semi-synthetic compounds of opioids that started to come about, which include of course #oxycodone, #fentanyl, and also #hydromorphone, which actually started a new era of pain management, but this further led to more addiction, since these drugs were used just for pain management, but then later on, they were prescribed for a lot of other conditions.
This then led to huge overdose rates, some of them being five-fold between 1980 and 2008, which made it one of the leading causes of death and injury.
This then became an epidemic in 20117, officially declared as more and more misusing them, and some of them were even dying from these overdoses as well.
It was found that a lot of people misuse #chronic #pain meds, some of them develop disorders as a result of this, and some even transition directly to heroin from this.
How Medical Cannabis helps
There are multiple sources that discuss #marijuana, the availability of this, and how it reduces the use of opioids.
According to a study over 18 months in Delaware, they looked at the effects of medical cannabis on current opioid pain management ways. Over this period, the patients who had this actually were able to decrease the opioid use by 31%, creating an average reduction of about 12.3 mg of morphine, according to the tracking of this. This means that it helped decrease it by about half, a 29% decrease in the use of opioids, and those who had knee pain started to use it less and less too.
Medical cannabis started to replace regular opioid medications, and from that, some people have stopped the use of this, and about half of them decreased the amount that they used.
About 40% sometimes up to 100%, were able to decrease their #pain. some of them even found that it was a better alternative to opioids, and some even mentioned a better life quality because of their ability to forgo all of this.
Right now, the medical information that comes with this also does look at the quantitative aspects of this, and there was actually a lower per capita of the prescriptions with this, and that the pain medications were also lowered too because of this.
With more and more studies coming out, it was also found that a lot of people were actually using #cannabis, rather than opioids, even when they were part of medical opioid prescription programs, and it’s helped them reduce this.
Whether it will replace #opioids, only time will tell this.
Medical Cannabis and the Comparison to Pain Meds
The problem with many people today, is their #addiction to opioids. This is something that can play a major role in a person’s life, and the cool thing about #cannabis, is that it reduces the instances of this.
There are even studies that show that those who have chronic pain will choose marijuana over the pain medications, since it’s more available, with less risks. There is also ongoing information that adds further insights onto the trends, and the possible value of #medical #cannabis for your ability to recover from #opioids.
The Issue with pain Meds
The problem with the current opioids is pretty obvious. This is something that was found pretty early on in the 1800s, especially with the discover of morphine by the Sumerians, who were able to find that the opium derivatives as well known as #heroin and #morphine were called wonder drugs. The thing is though, this is left uncontrolled, leading to insane levels of addiction, and eventual substance regulations as a result.
When the 20th century hit, there were then semi-synthetic compounds of opioids that started to come about, which include of course #oxycodone, #fentanyl, and also #hydromorphone, which actually started a new era of pain management, but this further led to more addiction, since these drugs were used just for pain management, but then later on, they were prescribed for a lot of other conditions.
This then led to huge overdose rates, some of them being five-fold between 1980 and 2008, which made it one of the leading causes of death and injury.
This then became an epidemic in 20117, officially declared as more and more misusing them, and some of them were even dying from these overdoses as well.
It was found that a lot of people misuse #chronic #pain meds, some of them develop disorders as a result of this, and some even transition directly to heroin from this.
How Medical Cannabis helps
There are multiple sources that discuss #marijuana, the availability of this, and how it reduces the use of opioids.
According to a study over 18 months in Delaware, they looked at the effects of medical cannabis on current opioid pain management ways. Over this period, the patients who had this actually were able to decrease the opioid use by 31%, creating an average reduction of about 12.3 mg of morphine, according to the tracking of this. This means that it helped decrease it by about half, a 29% decrease in the use of opioids, and those who had knee pain started to use it less and less too.
Medical cannabis started to replace regular opioid medications, and from that, some people have stopped the use of this, and about half of them decreased the amount that they used.
About 40% sometimes up to 100%, were able to decrease their #pain. some of them even found that it was a better alternative to opioids, and some even mentioned a better life quality because of their ability to forgo all of this.
Right now, the medical information that comes with this also does look at the quantitative aspects of this, and there was actually a lower per capita of the prescriptions with this, and that the pain medications were also lowered too because of this.
With more and more studies coming out, it was also found that a lot of people were actually using #cannabis, rather than opioids, even when they were part of medical opioid prescription programs, and it’s helped them reduce this.
Whether it will replace #opioids, only time will tell this.