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A Preliminary Study on Discomfort, Pain, and Chronic Pain with Cannabis
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A Preliminary Study on Discomfort, Pain, and Chronic Pain with Cannabis
Introduction
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Cannabis use is more common among people who have long-term pain, and it is
often used to relieve physical pain. On the other hand, not much is known about
the factors that lead people with chronic pain to use cannabis. However, there
is reason to think that feelings of pain may play a role in this connection.
Intolerance, which is also called DI, is a big part of how pain and cannabis work
together. The goal of this study was to get a �rst look at how often people with
chronic pain use cannabis and how that affects how they feel, how bad their
pain is, and how much it gets in the way of their lives. More speci�cally, they
thought that the intensity and interference of pain, as well as the avoidance
and intolerance of DI, would be linked to how often people used cannabis.
Methods
The information was gathered through an online survey. To take part, people
had to be 18 or older, permanent U.S. citizens, �uent English speakers, able to
read and write in English, and willing to give their permission electronically. The
study used multilayer linear regression models to look at the links between
pain intensity or interference and DI, as well as between pain intensity or
interference and DI and the outcome measure of cannabis use. Since getting
old and being gay are constants, they were always included as variables in all
models (Ditre et al., 2015). Given how often people use both cannabis and
tobacco, how well tobacco use and chronic pain go together, and how important
it is to stay consistent with how data has been analyzed in the past, cigarette
use status was added as a covariate. Since there are good reasons to use
cannabis when you have anxiety or depression.
Results
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The results showed that most of the people who took part (N = 109, 44% were
men, and the average age was 27) had chronic pain and had used cannabis at
least once in their lives. Most of the participants (n = 38) said they used
cannabis "less than once a month," while most of the participants (n = 32) said
they used it "daily or almost daily." Most people thought their chronic pain was
very bad but didn't affect them much (Kosiba et al. 2020). According to the
results, pain intensity, pain avoidance, and pain-related problems were all
linked to how often people used cannabis in a positive way. But cannabis use
was not shown to make people less able to handle pain.
Discussion
This study examined the cross-sectional relationships among DI, pain severity
in the last month, pain-related interference, and cannabis usage frequency.
Consistent with predictions, chronic pain patients who reported higher pain
intensity, pain interference, and pain avoidance also reported higher rates of
cannabis usage. As was also anticipated, there was a positive correlation
between pain-related interference and avoidance and intolerance of perceived
discomfort (Kosiba et al., 2020). Positive relationships between discrimination
of pain and how often people use cannabis did not reach statistical
signi�cance. This suggests that factors related to the subfactor of discomfort
avoidance may be more critical to how often people with chronic pain use
cannabis.
Conclusion
These early results imply that ongoing exploration of perceived discomfort
avoidance in connection to co-occurring pain and cannabis usage is necessary.
These �ndings are from a study that was conducted in the United Kingdom.
More research should be done to see if these results hold for people in pain
who are currently being treated with medical cannabis.
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References
Ditre, J. W., Langdon, K. J., Kosiba, J. D., Zale, E. L., & Zvolensky, M. J. (2015).
Relations between pain-related anxiety, tobacco dependence, and barriers to
quitting among a community-based sample of daily smokers. Addictive
Behaviors, 42, 130-135.
Kosiba, J. D., Mitzel, L. D., Zale, E. L., Zvolensky, M. J., & Ditre, J. W. (2020). A
preliminary study of associations between discomfort intolerance, pain
severity/interference, and frequency of cannabis use among individuals with
chronic pain. Addiction research & theory, 28(1), 76-81.
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