Cannabis in Health Care
Treatment with drugs that are extracts or synthetic variants of cannabis are not legal to use in health care with one exception. Nabiximols, trade name Sativex, a cannabinoid oromucosal mouth spray, was approved in December 2011 for multiple sclerosis (MS); only on prescription as a third alternative to two other approved drugs for that condition. About 13 000 persons in Sweden have the diagnose multiple sclerosis, about 50 of them used Savitex in December 2011. The Pharmacy Company that sell Savitex state that the risk for drug dependence is lower for Savitex than the morphine based alternatives because the dose of THC so low that the patients shall not be "high" on it.
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