Fewer Canadians are being prescribed opioids, study shows

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The number of patients who began treatment on the pain medication decreased by nearly 10 per cent, the Canadian Institute for Health Information says

This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Fewer people in British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Ontario were prescribed opioids last year compared with 2013 and the number of patients who began treatment on the pain medication decreased by nearly 10 per cent, the Canadian Institute for Health Information says.

“Despite overall decreasing trends in the prescribing of opioids, opioid-related harms and deaths have continued to rise across the country in recent years,” the report says. “The concern with prescription opioids goes deeper than the person and there can be others in the household that can access them,” he said.

Buckley, who often treats pain patients referred to him by other doctors, said it’s important for patients to know they need to be tapered off opioids slowly. Buckley said one of his patients, a man in his late 50s, had been prescribed opioids for 10 years due to a variety of workplace injuries but decided to taper off due to his concerns about long-term use.

 

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