Experts are worried about a proliferation of 'single-issue' cannabis clinics opening in Australia, some of them willing to prescribe via telehealth consultations with few checks.
Medicinal cannabis is causing harm to some patients, with doctors warning of a significant increase of people ending up in hospital with psychosis after being prescribed the drug.
"They'll provide it for you even though there is probably no indication that it will work, and the prescribers never contact the person's treating doctor. Newcastle-based general physician and clinical pharmacologist Jennifer Martin says apart from triggering psychosis in some patients, hospital emergency departments are also seeing people presenting with a condition called cannabis hyperemesis syndrome after taking medical cannabis."Some of these products have a lot of very psychoactive product in them.
"Treatment for anxiety, and often insomnia, is cognitive behavioural therapy from a good psychologist. But he stressed he’s not calling for medicinal cannabis to be removed from the market altogether, given its legitimate uses in treating conditions such as severe childhood epilepsy and vomiting associated with cancer drugs.In a clinical memorandum released in March, the RANZCP called for regulatory changes surrounding medicinal cannabis products and prescribing practices.
He also believes Australia's medicines regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration , should ban products containing THC, except for those used to treat nausea and vomiting associated with cancer drugs and spasticity in multiple sclerosis.
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