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

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: Opioid overprescribing, a plausible result of disingenuous marketing practices, has played a role in our current opioid crisis. The release and implementation of the 2017 “Guideline for opioid therapy and chronic noncancer pain” has created a shift in opioid prescribing for chronic noncancer

Source: PubMed Central

Authors: Hance Clarke, James Bao, Aliza Weinrib, Ruth E Dubin, Meldon Kahan

Institutions: Toronto General Hospital, Queen's University, University of Toronto, Women's College Hospital

Language: French

Topic: Opioid Use Disorder Treatment

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2972413200

FWCI: 3.21

Cites: 8

Cited by: 23

Related to: 10