Canada's hidden opioid crisis: the health care system's inability to manage high-dose opioid patients: Fallout from the 2017 Canadian opioid guidelines.

Abstract

Opioid overprescribing, a plausible result of disingenuous marketing practices, has played a role in our current opioid crisis. The release and implementation of the 2017 “Guideline for opioid therapy and chronic noncancer pain” has created a shift in opioid prescribing for chronic noncancer