Researchers Call for Urgent Overhaul of Pain Care Amid Opioid Crisis

Researchers call for urgent overhaul of pain care amid opioid crisis

A new position paper from researchers at the University of Aberdeen warns that opioid use disorder in the U.K. is a "large and probably underestimated" problem, and that without urgent action, opioid addiction and opioid-related deaths will continue to rise.

The opioid crisis, close up

La Presse sent a journalist and a photographer to ride along with an Urgences‑Santé ambulance as they dealt with a night’s work, including eight opioid overdoses; in a sidebar, an interview with a young woman who has emerged damaged from one of her many overdoses. The Gazette finds that rehab options for anglos in Montreal have been reduced after a bureaucratic change.