PPP045 - Why Tramadol sucks with Dr Dave Juurlink
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
The skinny
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