Feb 11: From heroin for addicted to opioid restricts for chronic pain. Dr. Brian Conway and Barry Ulmer.
The Roy Green Show · Global News / Curiouscast
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Show Notes
Safer supply of drugs program. How effective? Perspectives on open availability of drugs like heroin and opioids to those addicted. A success? A dangerous failure?
Guest: Dr. Brian Conway, Medical Director and infectious diseases specialist at the Vancouver Infectious Diseases Centre.
Then:
There are chronic pain patients (more than a million Canadians) often suffering debilitating pain and sometimes driven to suicide because continuing successful opioid pain medication regimens through a physician increasingly difficult.
Guest: Barry Ulmer. Executive director: Chronic Pain Association of Canada.
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