Reading Time: 4 minutes Despite the best of intentions, doctors flood homes with opioids purer and stronger than heroin, destroying countless lives in the process
Tag: Drugs
Russia’s Olympic pass a blow to IOC’s credibility
Reading Time: 3 minutes The IOC made a spineless decision that could set a bad precedent
Could legal pot finally liberate Canadian booze?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The final vestiges of a moral crusade against booze could finally be buried by legalized marijuana
Stronger IP protection for biologic medicine could save lives
Reading Time: 3 minutes Biologic medicines are difficult and expensive to develop, and Canadia’s weak intellectual property protections are making it even harder
Stemming the tide of inmate deaths after release
Reading Time: 3 minutes Time in custody offers a perfect opportunity to intervene and prevent health issues from arising after release
Fight the deadly opioid epidemic at its roots
Reading Time: 3 minutes A firewall has to be built between pharmaceutical companies and physician training programs
Canada facing an epidemic of overdiagnosis and overtreatment
Reading Time: 3 minutes Patients need to be empowered to ask about the risks caused by some tests and treatments, and whether they are really necessary
Let’s halt the killer fentanyl tide
Reading Time: 3 minutes Unless Canadians start to pay attention, there could be a wave of fentanyl deaths washing across the country
It’s time to think beyond national pharmacare
Reading Time: 3 minutes To improve access not just to drugs, but better drugs, pharmacare has to help drive interconnected, institutional changes
A glimpse into Vancouver’s Eastside Skid Row
Reading Time: 3 minutes There were drug addicts on the street in 1976, but somehow many of the interactions seemed to involve mentally ill people