Cannabis Use in Hospitalized Patients with Chronic Pain
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منابع مشابه
The use of cannabis for management of chronic pain.
The term “chronic benign pain” contains a contradiction in terms. If chronic pain is debilitating enough to compel patients to seek medical relief, then it is hardly benign. Chronic “idiopathic” pain is an equally problematic term. It implicates whatmedicine cannot explain, not that the pain is not there. Explanation or not, chronic pain patients besiege American medicine, with a recent study e...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Advances in Therapy
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0741-238X,1865-8652
DOI: 10.1007/s12325-020-01416-9