Category: Opioid

  • Opioid Addiction from the Words of a Patient

    Opioid addiction and misuse has been around since the earliest civilizations. Certainly when I graduated from Dalhousie College of Pharmacy 24 years ago and started working as a Pharmacist in Baddeck, we were all aware of such addiction. Based on what we were taught at the time, anyone who took an opioid dose of only…

  • Dispensing Pain Meds as a Specialty Service

    I have seen many changes happen to pharmacy in the last 24 years. OneĀ of the most career-shifting has been the change in the reimbursement model that has forced pharmacy to revisit how it makes money to remain afloat while continuing the important work of patient care. The traditional work I am referring to is not…