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. 2022 Jul;26(6):1183-1185.
doi: 10.1002/ejp.1946. Epub 2022 Apr 6.

Medicinal cannabis for chronic pain: The bermuda triangle of low-quality studies, countless meta-analyses and conflicting recommendations

Elon Eisenberg  1 , Bart Morlion  2 , Silviu Brill  3 , Winfried Häuser  4   5
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Medicinal cannabis for chronic pain: The bermuda triangle of low-quality studies, countless meta-analyses and conflicting recommendations

Elon Eisenberg et al. Eur J Pain. 2022 Jul.
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Conflict of interest statement

Elon Eisenberg received consulting fees, speaking fees, and/or honoraria from Rafa Laboratories, Syqe medical, Medison, Teva, Pfizer. Bart Morlion is past president of the European Pain Federation EFIC and was member of the EFIC task force which published a position paper on cannabis‐based medicines and medical cannabis for pain management. Over the last 5 years he received fees for service for speaker's and/or consultancy activities from Grünenthal, Lilly, Mundipharma, Pfizer, Krka, Ache, Sandoz, Shionogi, TEVA, GSK, Kyowa‐Kirin, Boston Scientific, Reckitt & Benckiser. Silviu Brill is Honorary Secretary of European Pain Federation EFIC and was member of the EFIC task force, which published a position paper on cannabis‐based medicines and medical cannabis for pain management. He received reimbursement for travelling and accommodation by Bioevents, a congress organiser, for co‐organising a congress on controversies on cannabis‐based medicines in 2018 and 2019. He received consulting and speaking fees from Rafa Laboratories, Pfizer, TEVA and Dexcell. Winfried Häuser has received reimbursement for travelling and accommodation by Bioevents, a congress organiser, for co‐organising a congress on controversies on cannabis‐based medicines in 2018 and 2019. He was the head of an EFIC task force of a position paper on cannabis‐based medicines and medical cannabis for pain management and member of a task force of a position paper on the same topic by the German Pain Society.

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