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PPP045 - Why Tramadol sucks with Dr Dave Juurlink
Episode 45
Published 7 years, 10 months ago
Description
Dan is joined by eminent physician, pharmacologist and former pharmacist Prof Dave Juurlink from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto.
We talk about:
- Why Tramadol is a bad choice of analgesia
- Why Codeine upscheduling is a good idea for Canada and Australia
- How scheduling impacts medication choice
- How a 100-word "paper" in NEJM contributed to the opioid epidemic