Childhood and Adolescence. Perspectives of Pain

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1. Cannabis and Pain Control in Pediatric Patients: Issues of Non-maleficence
(Donald E. Greydanus, MD, DrHC, and Joav Merrick, MD, DMSc, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, Michigan, US, and others)

Section One: Perspectives of Pain

Chapter 2. Cannabis: Current Concepts Related to Pediatrics
(Donald E. Greydanus, MD, DrHC, Karen Randall, DO, and Maria Demma Cabral, MD, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, Michigan, US, and others)

Chapter 3. Cloaking the Newborn from Suffering
(Donald E. Greydanus, MD, DrHC, and Joav Merrick, MD, DMSc, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, Michigan, US, and others)

Chapter 4. The College Student and Abdominal Pain
(Donald E. Greydanus, MD, and John D. Rowlett, MD, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, Michigan, US, and others)

Chapter 5. Chronic Abdominal Pain in Childhood and Adolescence
(Orhan Atay, MD, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters, Norfolk, Virginia, US)

Chapter 6. Recognition and Treatment of Pain in Childhood
(Natalie Truba, and John D. Hoyle Jr., MD, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, Michigan, US, and others)

Chapter 7. Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents
(Dilip R. Patel, MD, Kelly A. Brown, MD, and Donald E Greydanus, MD, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, Michigan, US, and others)

Chapter 8. The Teenager, Musculoskeletal Disorders and Sports Injuries
(Cynthia L. Feucht, PharmD, and Dilip R. Patel, MD, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan, US, and others)

Chapter 9. Chronic Disease and the Dying Adolescent
(Donald E. Greydanus, MD, DrHC, and Joav Merrick, MD, DMSc, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, Michigan, US, and others)

Section Two: Acknowledgements

Chapter 10. About the Editors

Chapter 11. About the Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine (WMED), Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States

Chapter 12. About the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel

Section Three: Index

Index

Marijuana (cannabis) remains a controversial drug in the 21st century, even though the plant has been known to human beings for at least 10,000 years with hemp-woven clothing material recorded in ancient China in 8,000 BCE and hemp foods in ancient China in 6000 BCE. It has been used for cancer pain, neuropathic pain and spasticity with multiple sclerosis, and other indications such as chronic pain and also in epilepsy management and current research is evaluating the anti-epileptic role. The potential role of specific cannabinoids for medical benefit will be revealed as the 21st century matures. However, potential dangerous adverse effects from smoking marijuana are well known and should be clearly taught to a public often confused by a media-driven, though false message and promise of benign pot consumption. In this book we will review not only cannabis, but pain and disorders causing pain in children and adolescents.