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June 22nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda FRIDAY, June 22 (HealthDay News) — About 10 percent of fibromyalgia
patients use marijuana to relieve symptoms such as pain, fatigue and
insomnia, a new study has found.
Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition that causes widespread pain,
fatigue, headaches, sleep disturbances and other symptoms. It affects up
to 3 percent of people and is more common among women.
Standard drug treatments for fibromyalgia-related pain provide only
modest relief, and some patients self-medicate with marijuana and other
traditional therapies, said Dr. Mary-Ann Fitzcharles, a professor of
medicine at McGill University and consulting rheumatologist at the
Montreal General Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre in
Montreal.
She and her colleagues looked at the use of marijuana or prescription
cannabinoids such as nabilone and dronabinol among 302 patients with
fibromyalgia and 155 patients with another chronic pain condition.
About 13 percent of all 457 patients used cannabinoids, with 80 percent
using marijuana. Smaller numbers used prescription cannabinoids, according
to the study findings published online June 21 in the journal Arthritis
Care Research.
Of the patients who smoked marijuana, 72 percent reported using one
gram or less per day, though a few smoked significantly more.
Patients who used marijuana were more likely to have unstable mental
illness, to seek opioid painkiller drugs and to be unemployed, the
investigators found.
“While self-medicating with cannabinoids may provide some pain relief
to fibromyalgia patients, we caution against general use of illicit drugs
until health and psychosocial issues risks are confirmed,” Fitzcharles
concluded in a journal news release.
“Physicians should be alert to potential negative mental health issues
in fibromyalgia patients using illicit drugs for medical purposes. Some
herbal cannabis users may be dishonestly using a fibromyalgia diagnosis to
justify self-medicating with illegal drugs,” she added.
More information
The American Academy of Family Physicians has more about fibromyalgia.
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