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Update: Ontario launches narcotics registry
Ontario's Narcotics Registry is now online.
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2012-04-26
ACTION Ontario at the Canadian Pain Summit
ACTION Ontario attended the Canadian Pain Summit in Ottawa, an event that was covered by the National Post
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2012-03-06
Perspectives on Pain Management and Oxycontin
The Globe and Mail's Andre Picard takes on the Oxycontin ban
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2011-11-08
A look at Ontario's new prescription narcotics strategy
As a province, Ontario has the dubious distinction of having the highest use of prescription drugs containing narcotics in the world. In fact, between 1991 and 2009, the number of prescriptions in ...
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2011-11-02
The Pain Dilemma - We Want Your Stories About Opioid Use and Abuse
Got a pain? Take a pill. Increasingly, we have become a nation of avid consumers of strong narcotic pain relievers - drugs like oxycodone, fentanyl and morphine. A recent survey found Canadian phar ...
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2011-10-04
Pain-plagued teens desperately want to be normal
Melissa Schippers, 15, of Gatineau, Que., suffers from complex regional pain syndrome, a chronic pain condition that, in Melissa's case, causes intense burning, aching and stabbing pain in her feet at ...
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2011-10-03
Salvation or slippery slope?
Psychologist Dr. Steve Munsie displays some of the pain-killer medications that he has to take daily to manage the pain from chronic kidney stones at his home in Laval in Montreal, Quebec on Friday, S ...
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2011-10-03
"Just breathing makes it hurt more", chronic pain sufferer says
Margaret Bristow spends most of her time in her Ottawa apartment dealing with fibromyalgia and neuropathic pain. Most days, such as on this Sept. 14, 2011 morning, her pain is a seven on a scale of 10 ...
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2011-10-02
"You mean this isn't going to go away?" Car accident set teacher-turned-author down painful path
Cathryn Morgan wrote an award winning children's book and is a former teacher in Ottawa who lives with pain daily. Cat was injured in a car crash in 2004. She suffers from severe neck pain, muscle spa ...
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2011-10-02
The Burden of No Proof
Because there is no objective way to measure chronic pain, people who suffer from it often struggle to convince others that their pain is real.
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2011-09-06
The Divide Over Opioids
We have a dual tragedy: a large segment of the population who could benefit from opioids - and an epidemic of over-prescribing and abuse.
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