Cannabis One Piece in Pain Management Puzzle
When Gillian FitzGibbon’s doctor suggested she try cannabis to reduce her chronic knee, hip and ankle pain, she figured anything was better than the cocktail of opioids she had been prescribed for years, medication that she said left her in an “abyss.”
As health-care providers sound the alarm over rising opioid addiction and the lack of available pain management alternatives, some patients like FitzGibbon — along with their physicians — are turning to cannabis derivatives for relief.
Ottawa physician Hillel Finestone co-authored an article published on June 14 in the journal Canadian Family Physician that calls opioid use in Canada an epidemic and links it to the lack of options offered by doctors for pain management. The authors say this is happening, in part, because non-medical pain management services — like physiotherapy to address physical tension and psychologists and social workers to address stress — are not covered by government health insurance plans, and therefore typically not considered...
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