Turning the tide on the harm of opioids

There is an urgent need for greater access to evidence-based, publicly funded options for pain management, including multi-professional teams that are better equipped to address complex situations.

Canada's federal Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor, pictured recently on the Hill. We now have decades of evidence showing that the quick fix has led to dire long-term consequences for patients and society, write Wendy Levinson and Laurent Marcoux.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY LAURENT MARCOUX, WENDY LEVINSON

April 16, 2018

As clinicians, we are bound by professionalism and our ethical responsibilities to do no harm and to do what we can to address the pain and suffering of our patients. When powerful pain relieving opioid medications were introduced a few decades ago, they seemed to be a way to do both. We now know t...

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