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The use of more than four medications by one patient is frequent. (AP Photo/Chris Post)

June 27, 2017

How to fix Canada’s opioid crisis: It starts with pain and the prescription pad

Andrea Furlan, University of Toronto

One in five Canadians suffers chronic pain and almost 2,500 died last year from opioid overdose. A National Pain Strategy promises to tackle both problems.

A medical cannabis grower. Shivanshu Pandev/flickr

May 19, 2017

Study: cannabis may reduce crack use

M-J Milloy, University of British Columbia and M. Eugenia Socias, University of British Columbia

Scientists have never found a medicine to help crack users who want to decrease their consumption. Canadian researchers think cannabis might be the answer.

Most people who take carfentanil think they’re taking something else, usually heroin. from www.shutterstock.com.au

March 9, 2017

Weekly Dose: while the media panic about ice, we should worry about carfentanil

David Caldicott, Australian National University

Carfentanil is an ultra-potent synthetic opioid. Its only legitimate use is in veterinary practice for large animals such as elephants, but it sneaks into heroin shipments to increase its potency.

Terrorists and hostages were gassed with a drug suspected to be fentanyl in 2002. Itar-Tass/AAP

July 27, 2016

Weekly Dose: fentanyl, the anaesthetic that may have been used as a chemical weapon on Chechen rebels

Nial Wheate, University of Sydney

It is thought that in 2002 fentanyl, or a drug based on fentanyl, was used by Russian special forces to disable Chechen rebels after a four day stand off in the Dubrovka theatre in Moscow.

Prince reportedly died of an accidental overdose of fentanyl. EPA/Dirk Waem

June 3, 2016

Prince’s death from fentanyl is only the tip of the global overdose iceberg

Julaine Allan, Charles Sturt University

Prince’s death was recorded as accidental. Accidents are common when it comes fentanyl, a powerful pain killer 100 times stronger than morphine.

Top contributors

Nial Wheate
Nial Wheate is a Friend of The Conversation.

BPharm Coordinator and Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney
David Caldicott
Emergency Medicine Consultant, Australian National University
Julaine Allan
Senior Research Fellow, Charles Sturt University
M. Eugenia Socias
Postdoctoral Fellow and clinician-scientist with the BC Centre on Substance Use and UBC Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
M-J Milloy
Research Scientist, BC Centre on Substance Use and Assistant Professor in the Division of AIDS, UBC Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia
Andrea Furlan
Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto