{"id":6696,"date":"2018-04-26T21:50:19","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T01:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lcpllutzlivetotell.org\/?p=6696"},"modified":"2019-08-08T12:36:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T16:36:32","slug":"local-doctor-talks-about-prescribing-medical-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/?p=6696","title":{"rendered":"Local doctor talks about prescribing medical marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"

Local doctor talks about prescribing medical marijuana<\/h1>\n
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By:<\/strong>\u00a0Amanda Kenney\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n
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Updated:<\/strong>\u00a0Apr 26, 2018 09:48 PM EDT<\/p>\n

Click here to watch Video\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n

Altoona, Blair County, Pa. – Now that medical marijuana is legal in Pennsylvania, more than 30,000 residents have been approved to receive the drug, and more than 10,000\u00a0have already taken it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Quite a few physicians in our region are now able to certify patients to receive medical marijuana.<\/p>\n

One of them is Dr. Fred Khalouf\u00a0at the University of Orthopedics in Altoona.<\/p>\n

Most of Dr. Khalouf’s patients suffer from severe chronic pain from cancer or spinal conditions, and neurological diseases like Parkinson’s.<\/p>\n

He says so far, he’s\u00a0prescribed, medical marijuana for several dozen people.<\/p>\n

“The results have been great, controlling spasticity, controlling pain, going above and beyond anything we’ve used so far.” Dr. Khalouf\u00a0said.<\/p>\n

Dr.\u00a0Khalouf says patients can take medical marijuana \u00a0by vaping, or by using oils, tinctures, lotions, or patches.<\/p>\n

They travel to Chambersburg or Enola for the drug since the Altoona dispensary isn’t open yet.<\/p>\n

He calls the response to the treatment huge and \u00a0expects a quick growth in the number of patients taking part.<\/p>\n

“It’s a huge deal. We’ve just scratched the surface with what we’re going to see with the cannabinoid use playing a role in many of the diseases that affect humans if not all of the diseases,”\u00a0Dr. Khalouf said.<\/p>\n

He says medical marijuana gives better pain relief with fewer side effects than opioids.<\/p>\n

Dr. Khalouf believes one of the biggest uses for medical marijuana will to weaning patients off opioids and keep them off the drugs.<\/p>\n

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Local doctor talks about prescribing medical marijuana By:\u00a0Amanda Kenney\u00a0 Updated:\u00a0Apr 26, 2018 09:48 PM EDT Click here to watch Video\u00a0 Altoona, Blair County, Pa. – Now that medical marijuana is legal in Pennsylvania, more than 30,000 residents have been approved to receive the drug, and more than 10,000\u00a0have already taken …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cannabis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}