Medical-Cannabis Care Managers & Mindfulness-Based Care: Science, Practice, and Social Reach
Chronic pain, anxiety, insomnia, irritable-bowel flares—these are the top four reasons adults seek medical cannabis cards. Each is modulated not only by peripheral nociceptive signals but also by attention, catastrophizing, and the appraisal circuits of the medial prefrontal cortex.1 At the same time, mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), breath-work, and focused-attention meditation reliably down-shift amygdala activity and increase parasympathetic tone…
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Dual Roles, Clear Lines: How Osteopathic Providers Can Serve Veterans in VA Community Care and Offer Medical-Cannabis Evaluations, Including Telehealth
Osteopathic physicians increasingly find themselves navigating two parallel healthcare worlds: federally governed Veteran care delivered through the VA Community Care […]
Cannabis Use Disorder, DNA, and Veterans’ Medical Cannabis Care for PTSD: What We Know and How To Move Forward
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Mendry’s Role – Clearly Stated: Veteran Education on State-Legal Medical Cannabis, Without Clinical Services
What Mendry does Explains the landscape in plain language. How federal and state laws intersect, including why VA clinicians cannot
Expanding the Circle of Care: How VA Community Care is Recognizing Nontraditional Providers
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