Clinical question: What is the role of medical cannabis or cannabinoids for people living with chronic pain due to cancer or non-cancer causes?
Current practice: Chronic pain is common and distressing and associated with considerable socioeconomic burden globally. Medical cannabis is increasingly used t...
This guideline covers assessing all chronic pain (chronic primary pain, chronic secondary pain, or both) and managing chronic primary pain in people aged 16 years and over. Chronic primary pain is pain with no clear underlying cause, or pain (or its impact) that is out of proportion to any observable inj...
Chronic Pain/classification,
Chronic Pain/drug therapy,
Chronic Pain/prevention & control,
Antidepressive Agents/therapeutic use,
Medical Marijuana/therapeutic use,
Analgesics, Opioid/therapeutic use,
Benzodiazepines/therapeutic use,
Anticonvulsants/therapeutic use,
Anesthetics, Local/therapeutic use,
Adrenal Cortex Hormones/therapeutic use,
Acupuncture Therapy
This guideline covers prescribing of cannabis-based medicinal products for people with intractable
nausea and vomiting, chronic pain, spasticity and severe treatment-resistant epilepsy....
This guideline covers managing neuropathic pain (nerve pain) with pharmacological treatments (drugs) in adults in non-specialist settings. It aims to improve quality of life for people with conditions such as neuralgia, shingles and diabetic neuropathy by reducing pain and promoting increased participati...
This guideline covers prescribing of cannabis-based medicinal products for people with intractable nausea and vomiting, chronic pain, spasticity and severe treatment-resistant epilepsy....
