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Podcast: Reefer MEDness
Episode: E44 - Gaba Gaba High!
Description: Ian Mitchell is an emergency physician, the Site Scholar for the Kamloops Family Medicine Residency Program and is occasionally photographed teaching whole rooms full of people to stick their fingers in their ears while opening their mouths really wide like they are in a silent scream. He caught our interest with an article and talk he did about gabapentin vs cannabis. Gabapentin was originally developed as a seizure medication, but it wasn't really good at that. Now it is routinely used for migraines, back pain, diabetic nerve pain and a variety of other conditions. There isn't great evidence for gaba...