. 2019 Sep;65(9):612-614.

Canada's hidden opioid crisis: the health care system's inability to manage high-dose opioid patients: Fallout from the 2017 Canadian opioid guidelines

Affiliations

¹ Staff anesthesiologist and Director of Pain Services in the Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management in the Pain Research Unit at Toronto General Hospital in Ontario. hance.clarke@utoronto.ca.
² Anesthesiology resident in the Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management at Toronto General Hospital.
³ Clinical psychologist in the Transitional Pain Service in the Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management at Toronto General Hospital.
⁴ Family physician with a special interest in pain and addiction practising in Kingston, Ont, Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Queen's University, and Co-chair of ECHO Ontario Pain and Opioid Stewardship.
⁵ Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto, and Medical Director of Substance Use Service/Addictions Medicine and Project Lead of META:PHI (Mentoring, Education and Clinical Tools for Addiction: Primary Care-Hospital Integration), both at Women's College Hospital.

Hance Clarke et al. Can Fam Physician. 2019 Sep.

. 2019 Sep;65(9):612-614.

¹ Staff anesthesiologist and Director of Pain Services in the Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management in the Pain Research Unit at Toronto General Hospital in Ontario. hance.clarke@utoronto.ca.
² Anesthesiology resident in the Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management at Toronto General Hospital.
³ Clinical psychologist in the Transitional Pain Service in the Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management at Toronto General Hospital.
⁴ Family physician with a special interest in pain and addiction practising in Kingston, Ont, Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Queen's University, and Co-chair of ECHO Ontario Pain and Opioid Stewardship.
⁵ Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto, and Medical Director of Substance Use Service/Addictions Medicine and Project Lead of META:PHI (Mentoring, Education and Clinical Tools for Addiction: Primary Care-Hospital Integration), both at Women's College Hospital.

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Addressing inaccurate claims about the Canadian opioid guideline.
Busse JW, Juurlink D, Buckley DN, Guyatt GH. Busse JW, et al. Can Fam Physician. 2019 Dec;65(12):856-857. Can Fam Physician. 2019. PMID: 31831480 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
Longer-term remedies for chronic pain management.
Deshpande A, Mailis A. Deshpande A, et al. Can Fam Physician. 2019 Dec;65(12):857-860. Can Fam Physician. 2019. PMID: 31831481 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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