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Cannabinoids and Their Role in Chronic Pain Treatment: Current   Concepts and a Comprehensive Review

Islam Shehata1* Ahmed Hashim2 Ahmed Saad Elsaeidy3 Anagha Nair4 Ivan Urits5 Omar Viswanath5 Alan Alan D. Kaye5 Marian Habib6
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1 anesthesiology, Ain Shams University
2 Ain Shams University, Ain Shams University
3 Faculty of medicine, Benha University, Benha, Egypt
4 Lady Hardinge Medical College, Lady Hardinge Medical College
5 Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
6 Hurghada General Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Hurghada, Egypt
Submitted: 18 May 2022 | Accepted: 18 May 2022 | Published: 3 October 2022
© 2022 by the Author(s). Licensee Health Psychology Research, USA. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

For decades, chronic pain was managed with an almost conventional approach of using a wide range of analgesic spectrum, surgical approaches and complex interventional pain techniques to modulate or even interrupt pain pathways. These different approaches carry many pharmacological hazards together with the lack of efficacy and safety of many interventional and surgical management techniques for chronic pain have mandated searching for other effective therapies including alternative treatments. Cannabinoids are naturally occurring substances that are derived from Cannabis sativa L. The usage of cannabinoids and their related synthetic chemical compounds has emerged as a choice in the management of different chronic pain conditions is being evaluated, however, the efficacy is still not consistently established. In the present investigation, therefore, we discuss the different aspects related to cannabinoids and their implications in the management of chronic pain conditions. This review will also discuss the safety profile of the cannabinoids together with the legal considerations that hinder their use in different countries.

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Hurghada General Hospital
Department of Cardiology
Hurghada
Egypt
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