Effects of Smoked Marijuana on Neuropathic Pain

NCT ID: NCT00254761

Last Updated: 2008-02-28

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

PHASE1/PHASE2

Total Enrollment

28 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2003-11-30

Study Completion Date

2006-02-28

Brief Summary

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To determine if smoking marijuana will reduce neuropathic pain without causing too much drowsiness or feeling "too dopey".

Detailed Description

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The case for marijuana's medical use for pain is primarily from experimental studies with normal subjects, which have yielded conflicting results. Experimental subjects have been shown to have significant dose-dependant antinociception effect that is not reversed by opioid antagonism. In contrast to this positive antinociceptive effect, other experiments demonstrated hyperalgesic activity and probably enhancement of the perception of pain upon acute exposure in chronic users of marijuana.

In addition to studying spontaneous pain antinociception, it would be useful to evaluate the response to marijuana following evoked pain. Such evoked pain is produced by stimulation of the skin that is normally not noxious.

Because of the potential side effects of marijuana administration, one of the aims of the present study is to analyze inter-individual variability and the occurrence of dose-dependant analgesia of marijuana with an eye on defining tolerable dosing in clinical neuropathic pain syndromes.

Comparisons: Neuropathic and experimentally induced pain scores will be compared after the administration of escalating doses of low, high, and placebo marijuana cigarettes as provided by the National Institutes on Drug Abuse (NIDA).

Conditions

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Neuropathic Pain

Keywords

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cannabis marijuana neuropathy antinociception mood cognition

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

CROSSOVER

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

TRIPLE

Participants Investigators Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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1

High dose cannabis (7.5% THC by weight)

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Cannabis

Intervention Type DRUG

2

Low dose cannabis (3.5% THC by weight)

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Cannabis

Intervention Type DRUG

3

Placebo cannabis

Group Type PLACEBO_COMPARATOR

Cannabis

Intervention Type DRUG

Interventions

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Cannabis

Intervention Type DRUG

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Able to understand English
* Age greater than 18 and less than 70
* VAS greater than 3/10
* History of previous marijuana use (i.e., avoidance of marijuana naive subjects)
* Negative urine drug screening test
* Nerve Injury a.k.a. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Type II OR
* Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Type I OR
* Neuropathic pain due to confirmed bilateral distal peripheral neuropathy associated with Diabetes I or II, focal nerve injury, postherpetic neuralgia, spinal cord injury with incomplete myelopathy, central pain following a stroke or focal brain lesion, or clinical definite multiple sclerosis of at least 3 months duration.

Exclusion Criteria

* Presence of another painful condition of greater severity than the neuropathic pain condition which is being studied
* Unstable Type 1 or 2 diabetes defined as blood glucose more than 156 mg/dl
* For diabetic subjects maintained on insulin with a stable blood glucose more than 156 mg/dl, a hemoglobin A1C level of more than 0.11 (normal range, 0.048-0.067)
* History of traumatic brain injury
* History of schizophrenia or a past or current history of a serious psychiatric disorder that is currently not well controlled with medications
* Uncontrolled medical condition - coronary artery disease, hypertension, cerebrovascular disease, asthma, TB, COPD, opportunistic infection, malignancy requiring active treatment
* Active substance abuse (alcohol or injection drugs)
* Current use of marijuana (within 30 days of randomization) as determined by urine screening
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

70 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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University of California, Davis

Principal Investigators

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Barth L Wilsey, M.D.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of California, Davis

Locations

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UC Davis Medical Center

Sacramento, California, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Related Links

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http://cmcr.ucsd.edu

Center For Medicinal Cannabis Research

Other Identifiers

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C02-DA-114

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id