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Patients who use cannabis may have increased postoperative pain and opioid requirements. In a retrospective study of nearly 35,000 patients undergoing elective surgery with general anesthesia (without neuraxial or regional anesthetic techniques), cannabis users had higher opioid consumption and higher pain scores during the first 24 postoperative hours compared with never-users.1 When possible, we use multimodal analgesia incorporating regional analgesic techniques to control perioperative pain in patients with cannabis use disorder (or acute cannabis intoxication).
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