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Should Pain Doctors Terminate Patients When They Use Medical Marijuana?
When a person sees a pain doctor, that person may receive narcotics. Especially if that person is experiencing chronic pain and no there is no operative answer, opiates may be part of a long pain relief plan.
There are significant potential side effects with opiate medications. This may include constipation, depression, sedation, euphoria, dizziness, fatigue, anxiousness, clammy skin, confusion, respiratory depression, and a slew of others.
One of the largest seen with opiates is addiction and/or tolerance. Tolerance is when the same amount of pain meds no longer provide adequate pain relief, despite the person’s chronic pain condition does not change.
One of the current pain treatment options that exists in 16 states plus DC now is medical marijuana. Treatment with medical marijuana may offer substantial relief that may decrease the need for increased opiate dosing or in some cases provide pain relief where narcotics have not worked.
For instance, opiate medications are not a great choice for peripheral neuropathies. They just don’t modulate the pain well, whereas, medical marijuana works very well for these issues.
Medical marijuana does not obviate the need or utility for interventional pain management. When dealing with a herniated disc or a focal medical problem where a pain injection would help, medical marijuana is not the end all answer.
When individuals are taking chronic pain medications with a pain doctor, usually a pain contract is signed. This agreement usually states that while an individual is receiving treatment, that person will not use illicit drugs.
Marijuana is still federally illegal, even for medicinal purposes, despite it being legal in 16 states. A large amount of pain doctors have urine drug testing as standard for patients under care. So if a person is under contract, gets tested, and shows positive for THC (the active marijuana component), is it the right thing to do to terminate the person?
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