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The treatment keeps users clear headed, reduces drug cravings and avoids dehumanising waits in pharmacy queues
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New injection allows weekly or monthly treatment of opioid dependence as a replacement for previous treatments such as Methadone.
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By Chris Clements
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Scotland s first medical cannabis clinic has begun prescribing to patients suffering from chronic pain conditions.
The Sapphire Medical Clinic in Stirling was approved by regulators in March and received hundreds of inquiries.
The private clinic provides unlicensed cannabis-based medicines for people with conditions that do not meet the criteria for NHS-prescribed cannabis products.
Medical cannabis was legalised in the UK in November 2018 and doctors are allowed to prescribe it in certain situations.
However, so far only one product - for children with rare forms of epilepsy - is available on the NHS in Scotland.