Author: PAINWeek

Senior faculty member Michael Clark offers some thoughts on engagement of medical marijuana in pain treatment. Are there lessons to be learned from our experience with opioids? Perhaps so… source

Increasing concern over long-term opioid therapy for chronic noncancer pain has prompted interest in opioid sparing alternatives. Is cannabis useful as an opioid sparing approach to pain management? Dr. Badiola considers the evidence. View more: http://pain.sh/ytpainweek source

Michael E. Schatman, PhD, CPE, DASPE, offers his opinion about cannabis. What are the issues? Yes, there are negatives, but are there positives, too? Dr. Schatman is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Pain Research, NYU School of Medicine in New York. source