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MS patients are being ‘denied’ access to NHS Sativex Says Media Report

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We’ve not had a proper night’s sleep in years,” he said. Mrs Todd, who was diagnosed in 2005, added: “I know that Sativex is available and is changing people’s lives. Chris Todd was diagnosed with MS in 1999, he lives in Hull with his wife Anne who also suffers from relapsing MS. The best I get is to pass out with exhaustion.

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A Hidden Origin Story of the CBD Craze

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And though a few outliers responded well to CBD alone, GW’s data showed that for relieving pain and inflammation, helping with sleep and alleviating seizures and spasms, most patients got the most benefit from an equal mix of CBD and THC — a drug the company called Sativex. But the research wasn’t enough.

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Paper: The transition of cannabis into the mainstream of Australian healthcare: framings in professional medical publications

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Authors of texts may use more surreptitious, and sometimes unconscious, literary devices such as rhetoric, trope, metaphor, or juxtaposition—techniques that evoke moral positions, predictions of possible effects, and prescribe solutions (Entman 1993 ; Johnson-Cartee 2005 ; Weaver 2007 ). Conditions most frequently mentioned.