Opioids Posts

The CARP Poll Report: Pain Management

October 14, 2015

Key Findings   October 5, 2015: Three quarters of members suffer from some kind of muscular skeletal condition like ...

Canada’s seniors face high rates of hospitalizations from adverse drug reactions

April 19, 2013

TORONTO – One out of every 200 seniors across Canada is hospitalized because of bad reactions to the medication ...

Ask the Doctor # 57: Pain Management in End-of-Life Care and the role of pain medications

February 8, 2013

In this article, I will specifically address the issue of how pain is managed with medications. As discussed in the ...

Ask the Doctor: A lost battle in our War on Pain

March 23, 2012

I borrowed this title from the thoughtful article by André Picard, published in The Globe and Mail on March 6, 2012. ...

Ask the Doctor: The 5 crises in Pain Management

February 24, 2012

February 24th 2012: I just could not resist passing on to you a summary of an article that hit my desk. It bears the ...

Back to Opioids: the dual tragedy continues – PART I

January 13, 2012

Over a year ago I wrote a column about the “Opioid Public Health Crisis” in Ontario. Opioids are a class of ...