Access Sativex

Access sativex

I am pleased to announce that Action4MS and Clear will be launching a joint campaign aimed at looking at and raising awareness of the disparity of prescription of sativex across the country. We aim to organise and help people apply for sativex and will document the results. a logo and facebook page will be up soon.

Sativex is produced by GW pharmaceuticals from whole cannabis plant extract and has been licensed in the UK for spasticy in MS. It is a sublingual spray and was made available in the UK in 2010 and is avalible in spain, canada and several other countries and is pending in many countries worldwide since the Swiss drug Giant Novartis has got involved. Despite passing all safety and efficacy tests proving sativex to be effective in treating spasticity in MS many Primary Health Care trusts across the UK will not fund the Medication, leading to a “post code lottery” type situation. Some of the primany health care trusts say this is for cost reasons with others disputing its effectiveness, some Primaary health care trusts in the midlands have even outright banned Sativex meaning many people are completely denided any acess to the medication at all. The news papers often have stories of people suffering and being denied the option of trying Sativex. but this all begs the question of why a licensed pharmaceutical drug is causing so much controversy???

It all comes down to one reason and one reason alone. The fact That cannabis is used to make sativex. This has lead to the huge cost to produce sativex, as GW had to jump through many hoops just to get Sativex on the market. It has also meant that public opinion and attitudes towards sativex have been undoubtedly swayed due to the years of propaganda that we have had to endure.

Dipite what GW, and now even the MS society are trying to imply, sativex is whole plant extract from cannabis, not just THC and CBD which it says on the bottle. Sativex contains the full range of cannabinoids that the plants it is made from contain, Sativex is cannabis.

For all those diagnosed with MS the beneficial effect of cannabis can be life changing so I would encourage you or anyone with a chronic condition to speak to your health professional about getting prescribed sativex, to anyone that wants to be apart of the campaign please get incontact with me via action4ms@hotmail.co.uk

Clark French.

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