AXIM Biotechnologies Takes First Steps Towards Clinical Trials for CBD-Based Treatment of Drug-Related Psychosis

Since securing additional funding last fall, AXIM® Biotechnologies has expanded its ongoing new drug research to include treatments for opioid addiction, irritable bowel syndrome, multiple sclerosis, psoriasis and eczema, and restless leg syndrome.

AXIM® Biotechnologies is now taking the necessary steps to begin clinical trials for the treatment of a new condition – psychosis.

The company has entered a Clinical Study Agreement (CSA) with the University of British Columbia in Canada to begin a clinical trial with its CanChew® Plus CBD chewing gum product to treat drug-induced psychosis in adult patients.

The functional chewing gum will be composed of 50 mg CBD and utilizes the company’s patent on cannabinoid-based chewing gum. AXIM® hopes to demonstrate the efficacy of the company’s new chewing gum product to treat psychosis before moving on to more advanced clinical research. The University of British Columbia will work with Health Canada and their own ethics board to design the parameters of the upcoming clinical trial

50 mgs seems low but I’m not an expert on these things.

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50 mgs is low, at least a lot lower than the trial with sz (different researchers?) Which was 600-800 mgs.

But maybe drug induced psychosis is different.

Would be great if it works at that relatively low dose, CBD is very pricey at 600+ mgs a day.

You never know with CBD, if it works or not. It works for some epilepsy patients but there’s not much proof to convince me CBD is good for schizophrenia.

I have a bottle of CBD in my cupboard. I’m going to try it one day when I’m paranoid, that way I can see how it effects me. I take antipsychotics and other things so there hasn’t been any real need for me to take cbd yet.

Anyone had any luck with CBD that wasn’t placebo?

There was a trial against amisulpride, in which CBD performed well.

The dosages were very high though. Like you would be taking an entire bottle of pills a day.

I think this is a practical drawback that needs to be overcome before CBD for psychosis is feasible for patients.

Yeah, perhaps they will be able to make a stronger synthetic version, or maybe just distill it down more. I think part of the reason it’s so many pills is just because, for the reasons most people take CBD, 1 or 2 pills is fine. So that is how they are manufactured.