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Article: Cannabis test success for treatment of MS; Doctors in bid to get drug licensed for use on NHS.(News)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- April 19, 2003
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Byline: Helen Clarke
A TRIAL being conducted in Liverpool could pave the way for cannabis being prescribed on the NHS.
The Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery in Fazakerley is the world's first medical centre to test the effects of the drug on multiple sclerosis sufferers.
Its findings prove the drug, which is administered in spray form, does help relieve nerve pain.
The research has now been sent to the Medicines Control Agency to see if cannabis should be licensed.
The Government will then decide whether the drug should be available to everyone through the NHS.
Dr Carolyn Young, consultant neurologist at ...