Airing Pain 114: You, Your Drugs, and the Law: Gabapentinoids & Medicinal Cannabis.

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On 1 April 2019 Pregabalin and Gabapentin, drugs recommended for the management of neuropathic pain, were re-classified as class C controlled substances.

Medicinal Cannabis: Is it safe? Does it work for pain? Is it legal?

Where do people who use these drugs to manage their chronic pain, now stand within UK law?

Programme link: audioboom.com/posts/7281593...

Contributors:

Blair Smith, Consultant in Pain Medicine at NHS Tayside, and National Lead Clinician for Chronic Pain in Scotland.

Steve Alexander, Associate Professor in Molecular Pharmacology at Nottingham University.

Cameron Rashide who lives with neuropathic pain.

[Capitan23]

Is anyone there who can help me I want to stop taking my medication which is morphine please I am more 120mg every day .

[Hidden in reply to Capitan23]

Ooh that sounds a lot. .how long for ... I should imagine you would have to do it gradually with professional support. . . What's the gp say ? You will have to start there .And why now .

[Ritchie1268 in reply to Capitan23]

Please read my post regarding Opiates & how they effected me & made my pain much worse, then gave me other health complications.

[Ellijaygal in reply to Ritchie1268]

Everyone is different.

[Ritchie1268 in reply to Ellijaygal]

Exactly, they are. And if you read the post I was referring to, you will see that's what I have said.