Reading Time: 3 minutes Universality is no free ride for the rich. If everyone pays, say, a one per cent income tax for universal drug coverage, the millionaire will pay much more
Tag: Drugs
More isn’t always better: making better health-care choices
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadians have more than one million unnecessary medical tests, treatments and procedures every year. But we can improve patient outcomes and save resources
Regulating marijuana is a fool’s errand
Reading Time: 3 minutes The good news: an absurd prohibition on pot is about to end. The bad news: the Trudeau government has tied itself in knots
The stone cold truth: marijuana clouds reality
Reading Time: 3 minutes Contrary to decades of marijuana proponent propaganda, it’s not a drug like alcohol or caffeine. It’s very purpose is intoxication
What medicines do we really need in Canada?
Reading Time: 3 minutes As well as providing patients with critical medications when they need them, an essential medicines list helps patients get the right medicine
Inadequate intellectual property rights protections hurt patients, economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Provide biopharmaceutical firms with patent term extensions to recover time lost due to mandatory governmental regulatory and marketing approvals
Canada needs a strategy to improve drug safety for seniors
Reading Time: 3 minutes Much more can and should be done by governments to address this serious health issue for our aging population
Opioid use crisis shows urgent need for pain treatment options
Reading Time: 4 minutes Our response to the crisis must be broadened to address the aspects of our health-care system that contribute to the increasing demand for opioids
Spark ’em up, but with our eyes wide open
Reading Time: 3 minutes As we move inexorably toward legalizing marijuana, it’s vital for the federal task force to put science ahead of politics
Opioid crisis should be top of federal health agenda
Reading Time: 4 minutes Crisis calls for strong federal leadership, education of clinicians, and non-pharmaceutical pain management alternatives for patients