Turning the tide on the harm of opioids

By Wendy Levinson and Laurent Marcoux Comments Off on Turning the tide on the harm of opioids opioid addiction, Opioid crisis, opioid overdose, opioids, pharmaceutical policies in Canada, pharmaceuticals, prescription opioids

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 that […]