Author: Wiater Julia

Integrated Pain Solutions: Day 2 + Making Balms!

Another day at Integrated Pain Solutions in Southern Pines. We started the day off by reviewing our notes from yesterday. We all enjoyed getting to draw the structures (as shown by JR’s thumbs up). A highlight of the day was watching the formulation process for making balms and other serums. From precisely measuring out each ingredient to pipetting each extract, the balms were perfectly made so they will be effective in mitigating pain for patients. After, we discussed why each ingredient is added and how it contributes to the overall effect of the balm. We enjoyed learning not just about the balm process, but about future career paths and collegiate studies from Ryan. In addition, we spent lots of time researching different types of pain killers and drugs to understand how the urine analysis works on site. The structures all had very unique shapes and lots of benzene groups!

Integrated Pain Solutions: Orientation and Preliminary Knowledge

 

After a very fun, early morning, caffeine-hyped, carpool drive to Southern Pines (Thanks to JR for not hitting the giant snapping turtle on the road), we had an orientation at Integrated Pain Solutions. We thoroughly enjoyed learning, visualizing, and experiencing how their cannabinoid products are made from the plant to the serum to the bottles to the store within the warehouse.  We loved seeing the machines used to bottle and formulate all the products. A highlight of the day was learning about the chemical structures of cannabinoids and how they work in the body to attach to pain receptors; as well, we got to apply some of Mr. Rushin’s Adv Chem curriculum to real-life by analyzing the cannabinoid structures and how the disconnected Oxygen off the Benzene on the THC makes it different than CBD. Shout out to Alekh for helping JR navigate the Chick-fil-a line.

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