ScienceDaily (May. 15, 2012) — A UCSF study suggests patients with chronic pain may experience greater relief if their doctors add cannabinoids -- the main ingredient in cannabis or medical marijuana -- to an opiates-only treatment. The findings, from a small-scale study, also suggest that a combined therapy could result in reduced opiate dosages.
What I understand is that, scientists discovered that Cannabinoids, one of the main ingredients of the Medical Cannabis or commonly known as medical Marijuana, can be used to reduce the pain of patients who are in Opiates treatment. The study shows that if Cannabinoids are included in these patients' therapy, their pain can be reduced drastically.
Why am I interested in this article? It is interesting that an illegal drug can help make some people's lives better. Especially Cannabinoids one of the major components of Marijuana. This can have a huge impact on the people to see that a drug, such a marijuana, that is believed to be bad for people's health and for society, actually is good to cure a disease and that it might have even more uses yet unknown to us.
What connection do I have with this article? Connection? Well, one connection this article can have with my life is that I want to study Psychology and possibly specialize in the treatment of patients who have diseases that involve chronicle pain and are under opiates treatment. This treatment is very common and chronicle disease patients are usually treated by psychologists. These patients are usually treated by psychologists because most of the times chronicle diseases are associated with psychological factors such as stress. So, when I start to work as a Psychologist, and one of my patients has one of these diseases, I will know what I can give them medical Marijuana to reduce the pain and make their lives better.
Area of interaction: Health and Social Education: Cannabinoids is a main component of medical marijuana that a group of scientists and doctors discovered that can be useful to reduce pain in patients who have a chronicle disease involving pain. Chronicle pain, is a disease that can't be removed but it can be reduced. It is caused by many psychological factors such as insomnia, stress, and so on. And many times, these diseases are treated with different techniques such as therapy, natural medicine, and so on.
Human Ingenuity: This type of medicine was discovered by scientists and doctors and they use advanced technology to prove if that medicine can be useful to cure or reduce diseases.
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