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Medical Marijuana for Treatment of Chronic Pain and Other Medical and Psychiatric Problems

Overview of attention for article published in JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, June 2015
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48 news outlets
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6 blogs
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3 policy sources
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630 tweeters
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38 Facebook pages
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1 Wikipedia page
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4 Google+ users
reddit
1 Redditor

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920 Mendeley
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1 CiteULike
Title
Medical Marijuana for Treatment of Chronic Pain and Other Medical and Psychiatric Problems
Published in
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, June 2015
DOI 10.1001/jama.2015.6199
Pubmed ID
Authors

Kevin P. Hill

Abstract

As of March 2015, 23 states and the District of Columbia had medical marijuana laws in place. Physicians should know both the scientific rationale and the practical implications for medical marijuana laws. To review the pharmacology, indications, and laws related to medical marijuana use. The medical literature on medical marijuana was reviewed from 1948 to March 2015 via MEDLINE with an emphasis on 28 randomized clinical trials of cannabinoids as pharmacotherapy for indications other than those for which there are 2 US Food and Drug Administration-approved cannabinoids (dronabinol and nabilone), which include nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy and appetite stimulation in wasting illnesses. Use of marijuana for chronic pain, neuropathic pain, and spasticity due to multiple sclerosis is supported by high-quality evidence. Six trials that included 325 patients examined chronic pain, 6 trials that included 396 patients investigated neuropathic pain, and 12 trials that included 1600 patients focused on multiple sclerosis. Several of these trials had positive results, suggesting that marijuana or cannabinoids may be efficacious for these indications. Medical marijuana is used to treat a host of indications, a few of which have evidence to support treatment with marijuana and many that do not. Physicians should educate patients about medical marijuana to ensure that it is used appropriately and that patients will benefit from its use.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 6 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 909 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 154 17%
Researcher 104 11%
Student > Master 102 11%
Other 99 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 77 8%
Other 235 26%
Unknown 149 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 269 29%
Psychology 76 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 60 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 53 6%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 51 6%
Other 220 24%
Unknown 191 21%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 884. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 February 2023.
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#16,783
of 23,351,247 outputs
Outputs from JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association
#431
of 33,283 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#124
of 265,086 outputs
Outputs of similar age from JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association
#5
of 438 outputs
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