PPP045 - Why Tramadol sucks with Dr Dave Juurlink
- Author
- Purple Pen Podcast
- Published
- Sat 10 Mar 2018
- Episode Link
- https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/purplepenpodcast/PPP045_-_Why_Tramadol_sucks_with_Dr_Dave_Juurlink.mp3
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
