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Sleep and the Role of Medical Cannabis

Date: 01-09-2021 19:30:00

When Wednesday 1 September 2021 from 7:30pm
Where Webinar
Cost Free

Learning outcomes:

1. Describe the physiology of sleep and the sleep cycle.
2. Summarise common chronic sleep disorders, the ways in which those disorders present in practice, and the impact on patients' mood and function.
3. List commonly occurring medical and psychiatric comorbidities that occur alongside sleep disorders and their bearing on insomnia treatment.
4. Outline evidence-based non-pharmacological treatments for insomnia, and the limited role hypnotic drugs can play in short-term sleep disturbance.
5. Outline the role medicinal cannabis can play in various chronic insomnia disorders, including recognised indications, contraindications and principles of safe prescribing.

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