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Expert: Opioid epidemic
Published: 12 April 2016
​Prescriptions for dangerous alternatives to OxyContin are soaring, showing that a crackdown on the popular painkiller has failed to curb Canada’s opioid crisis.
Nicholas King, Professor, Department of the Social Studies of Medicine, ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ
"The tremendous increases in opioid mortality in North America is a complex, mutlifaceted problem. Many recommended solutions - such as improving physician competence or developing tamper-resistant drugs - are unlikely to have much impact."—Nicholas King
Professor King is in the biomedical ehtics unit at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ. He's interested in public health ethics and policy, and in health information, inequalities, and measurement.
nicholas [dot] king [at] mcgill [dot] ca (English) He's in North Carolina.