Tag Archives: Pharmaceutical

Free medicines for rich kids is actually a fair and efficient policy Free medicines for rich kids is actually a fair and efficient policy
By Marc-André Gagnon
What Canada can learn from Australia on health care What Canada can learn from Australia on health care
By Stephen Duckett
Pharmacare for kids Pharmacare for kids
By Avram Denburg and Wendy Ungar
Four reasons Canada needs universal pharmacare and what Canadians can do to make it happen now Four reasons Canada needs universal pharmacare and what Canadians can do to make it happen now
By Steve Morgan
There’s nothing like an American health care debate to make Canadians feel lucky There’s nothing like an American health care debate to make Canadians feel lucky
By Danielle Martin
When it comes to prescription drug coverage, our health system has plenty in common with the United States — and that’s not a good thing
By Colleen Flood

Most Canadians would likely agree that those who need potentially life-saving prescription medications should have ready access to them.

Facing some unpleasant truths about opioids
By Dr. David Juurlink

The goal of pain medication isn’t simply pain relief, the goal is to help more than harm. Sometimes chronic opioid therapy meets this objective, but it does so less often than we think.

Facing some unpleasant truths about opioids
By Dr. David Juurlink

The goal of pain medication isn’t simply pain relief, the goal is to help more than harm. Sometimes chronic opioid therapy meets this objective, but it does so less often than we think.

Facing some unpleasant truths about opioids
By Dr. David Juurlink

To openly question the role of opioids in the treatment of chronic pain is to draw the ire of patients and, sometimes, the displeasure of colleagues, particularly those who specialize in pain medicine. But it is long past time that doctors and patients reflect on what happens when these drugs are prescribed for months or years at a time.

Facing some unpleasant truths about opioids
By Dr. David Juurlink

Despite the best of intentions, doctors flooded North American homes with opioid drugs purer and often stronger than heroin.


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