Deep Dive: Prescribing Cannabis Medicines for Epilepsy
- Higher Learning LV Staff
- Oct 10, 2022
- 6 min read
Updated: Mar 6, 2023
This Deep Dive serves as 2022 research about the use of cannabis for epilepsy, with a focus on childhood epilepsy. This article is a living document that is updated regularly based on the release of new research on this topic.
A March 2022 research study entitled "Expert Advice for Prescribing Cannabis Medicines for Patients with Epilepsy—Drawn From the Australian Clinical Experience" that was published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology stated the goal of developing "interim consensus advice for [medical] prescribers" and that this advice would provide "an informed overview of the different cannabis medicines currently available for use in the treatment of epilepsy."
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