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UK: MS Lizzie gets pot on NHS

Jacqui Thornton

The Sun

Thursday 23 Feb 2006

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A MULTIPLE sclerosis patient has become the first person in the UK to be
given a new cannabis medicine on the NHS.

Lizzie Gilchrist, 24, asked her GP to have pain-relief spray Sativex
imported from Canada under a British government scheme. It is unlicensed
for use here.

But many Primary Care Trusts are refusing to allow their doctors to
prescribe the drug — some citing “possible adverse effects” — even if
patients are willing to pay privately.

Lizzie, of Buckhurst Hill, Essex, has now called for Sativex to be made
readily available.

She added: “I got this drug with no problem. It seems pot luck.”

 

 

 

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