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Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Rebecca Z. Xu, MD March 2025
... mortality compared with non-opioid analgesia.[ 3 ] Since 2016, there has been an almost threefold increase in fatal ... the context of opioid-naive individuals. Some individuals may be only short-term users, while others become long-term ... mental health issues, suicide, and overdose compounds this issue.[ 38 ] Hence, evidence-informed measures that focus on ...
Premise / BY: John A. Cairns, MD, FRCPC May 2025
... others only partially or not at all, and still others may experience undesirable, even fatal, side effects. The ... Opioid use disorder is a long-standing social and medical issue that has reached epidemic proportions in recent years, ... ] despite the declaration of a public health emergency in 2016. Efforts to understand and manage the problem of opioid ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC November 2025
... be upon us (something else you’ve read about in a prior issue of the BCMJ ). You pause at a letter responding to last ... response rate but comparable to prior surveys in 2022 and 2016. Of those respondents, 39% were family physicians, 40% ... the importance of discovery. A digital algorithm may not serve up the article you didn’t know you needed, ...