Comment on Psychiatrists fear medicinal cannabis adverse events are 'tip of the iceberg'
guillem@aussie.zone 6 days agoFor perspective, according to drugs.com:
_The chance of having a drug side effect generally falls in these ranges:
- Very common: affecting more than 1 in 10 people (>10%)
- Common: affecting between 1 in 10 people to 1 in 100 people (1% to 10%)
- Uncommon: affecting between 1 in 100 to 1 in 1,000 people (1% and 0.1%)
- Rare: affecting between 1 in 1,000 to 1 in 10,000 people (0.1% to 0.01%)
- Very rare: affecting less than 1 in 10,000 people (< 0.01%)_
HalfEarthMedic@slrpnk.net 6 days ago
In my experience with people who have been prescribed cannabis according to this metric common side effects are acute intoxication and worsening of existing mental health issues. Uncommon side effects are diarrhoea, nausea/vomiting, abdominal pain. Rare is psychosis, I’ve seen it once in maybe 200 patients but it’s probably not 0.5%.
We really need to define the risks if we’re going to prescribe cannabis at these volumes. Hence the call for TGA to investigate.