Chronic Pain Patients

• ‘Unintended consequences’: Why taking patients off opioids quickly can be dangerous

  New opioid-prescribing guidelines are often misinterpreted by doctors, experts say, causing patients harm.

  Health

  Oct 13, 2019
  
• Chronic pain patients increasingly struggling to access opioid medications in southern Alberta

  A representative from HELP_Alberta, an advocacy group for chronic pain sufferers in the province, is raising concerns about accessibility to medications that manage the day-to-day physical suffering of those dealing with pain.

  Health

  Sep 19, 2019
  
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• ‘Quality of life would be unbearable:’ new survey reveals how chronic pain patients would live without crucial therapy

  The provincial government is proposing to reduce the frequency of nerve-blocking injections, a crucial therapy for thousands of chronic pain patients.

  Health

  May 2, 2019
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• Roy Green: Opioids are not the enemy yet the war on pain patients continues

  Roy Green says it is rare for a week to pass without him receiving emails from good people suffering because they can't access pain medication.

  Oct 25, 2018
• Roy Green: A ‘reality check’ that rings every conceivable alarm bell

  This morning, I began assembling this Saturday's and Sunday's programs and was jolted back into reality by one email in particular.

  Sep 1, 2017
• Interviews I shouldn’t have to air with good people who should be spared the agony

  Tammi and Niki Hale. Doug Hale was their beloved husband and father. Last October, Doug committed suicide. He was just 53. For 18 years, Doug Hale suffered horribly. At 35, Doug was diagnosed with interstitial cystitis. If you have no idea what interstitial cystitis is, pray hard you remain unaware personally of the cruelty a...

  Commentary

  Jul 9, 2017
• Challenging the federal health minister on opioids and treatment of chronic pain patients

  Each time I challenged the minister on government or medical authority releases on opioid prescription medication, and directly accused governments of pointing the finger of blame for the crisis at chronic pain patients, the minister acknowledged I had asked a very important and relevant question.

  Commentary

  Jun 4, 2017
• Dear Federal Minister of Health Jane Philpott: Are chronic pain patients victims of government attack?

  You have heard chronic pain patients express their fear of the Canadian and provincial governments because their opioid medications, prescribed by their doctors, are being cut back, or cut off entirely.

  Commentary

  Jun 3, 2017