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Date of Award
Spring 2020
Degree Name
Master of Medical Science (Physician Assistant)
Department
Physician Assistant; College of Health Sciences
First Advisor
Allison "Sadie" Ermol
Second Advisor
Erin Wolf
Abstract
Chronic pain, a chief complaint for millions of Americans, is an increasingly challenging diagnosis for providers to treat and control for their patients. Exhausting all non-pharmaceutical options, many providers often feel compelled to offer the current mainstay treatment for chronic pain, prescription opioids. These drugs, though able to provide adequate analgesia to patients, have highly addictive and often lethal qualities and have led to countless deaths across the United States each year. Therefore, it is imperative that an alternative treatment for chronic pain be established. This meta-analysis looks to Sativex, a THC:CBD oromucosal spray as a potential substitute.
Recommended Citation
Rydlewski, Matthew, "In adults that experience chronic pain, is the use of THC:CBD oromucosal spray Sativex more or equally as effective in facilitating pain management as compared to prescription opioids?" (2020). Capstone Showcase. 100.
https://scholarworks.arcadia.edu/showcase/2020/pa/100
In adults that experience chronic pain, is the use of THC:CBD oromucosal spray Sativex more or equally as effective in facilitating pain management as compared to prescription opioids?
Chronic pain, a chief complaint for millions of Americans, is an increasingly challenging diagnosis for providers to treat and control for their patients. Exhausting all non-pharmaceutical options, many providers often feel compelled to offer the current mainstay treatment for chronic pain, prescription opioids. These drugs, though able to provide adequate analgesia to patients, have highly addictive and often lethal qualities and have led to countless deaths across the United States each year. Therefore, it is imperative that an alternative treatment for chronic pain be established. This meta-analysis looks to Sativex, a THC:CBD oromucosal spray as a potential substitute.