When doctors in study reduced the amount of narcotics they prescribed after outpatient surgeries and used other options, they found patients didn’t need more.
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Sask. nurses want prescribing power to tackle opioid addiction
On Thursday, Saskatchewan nurses will vote on proposed bylaw changes that would allow them to prescribe opioid substitution therapies, like methadone.
Kamsack doctor charged with improperly prescribing opioids
Saskatchewan’s College of Physicians and Surgeons has charged Dr. Murray Davies for improper prescribing.
Opioid prescribing guidelines OK despite conflict of interest, CIHR review finds
The Canadian Institutes for Health Research has concluded that new national guidelines for prescribing opioids were based on sound scientific evidence despite a conflict of interest. CBC | Health News
‘Be more cautious’ in prescribing off-label drugs for chronic back pain, review says
Doctors are prescribing anti-seizure and nerve pain medications for a common type of chronic low-back pain, a non-licensed use, despite a lack of studies supporting their effectiveness for that purpose, according to a new review. CBC | Health News
Type 2 diabetes ‘health crisis’: Prescribing rates growing at double the rate of all drugs
TYPE 2 diabetes prescriptions are growing at double the rate of all other primary care prescribing, an NHS report has revealed. Daily Express :: Health Feed
In defence of Fentanyl: Patient speaks out against new prescribing guidelines
Chronic pain patient Dawn Rae Downton, 60, is considering drastic choices if she’s cut off the highly powerful painkiller Fentanyl — which she has taken for 12 years — because of new guidelines for doctors prescribing opioid painkillers. CBC | Health News
‘People are dying out there’: New guidelines for prescribing opioids encourage doctors to put down the pad
New Canadian guidelines for prescribing of opioids for chronic, non-cancer pain focuses on preventing harm. That’s a different approach from the last guidelines in 2010 where the focus was on how to prescribe opioids. CBC | Health News
Alberta doctors given new rules for prescribing opioids
Alberta physicians will soon have to check the medical histories of their patients before prescribing opioids, benzodiazepines, stimulants and sedatives. CBC | Health News
