In July 2021 we published a Therapeutics Letter on tramadol and advised our readers that "Health Canada has announced that it will add tramadol to Schedule I of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and...
The UBC Innovation Support Unit in collaboration with the BC Centre on Substance Use and the Therapeutics Initiative presents: Think Twice! The (lack of) evidence for opioid analgesics to treat minor acute and chronic pain an educational...
Tramadol was marketed as an opioid analgesic in Germany in 1977, but not licenced in Canada until 2005. Health Canada has announced that it will add tramadol to Schedule I of the Controlled Drugs and...
An individual Portrait on prescribing opioids to opioid naïve patients was sent to approximately 5200 family doctors in BC, randomized to receive the Portrait in two groups. The Portraits were mailed to the early group...