What recommendations do you have regarding the use of dronabinol to prevent cannabis withdrawal in an inpatient medical or psychiatric setting?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
I routinely use dronabinol in patients who are heavy/daily cannabis users and are having a hard time as inpatients with any degree of withdrawal and cravings. It can be a good anxiolytic as well as antiemetic and orexigenic in this situation. Depending on their preferences, it can be scheduled with ...
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Dronabinol is showing superiority, in helping people with severe withdrawal. It is also something that should be tightly controlled and precisely dosed and I find it almost impossible to be implemented in an outpatient setting. The inpatient setting is a totally different story. There are also consi...
Thanks for sharing your protocol, Dr. @Wininger. I...
Hi Dr. @Carlson, I'll also use TCAs, olanzapine, h...
Thanks for your thoughts here. I have seen some ca...
A high percentage of my inpatients have been heavy...
NAC or N-acetyl cysteine can be helpful for cannab...