Pain Management: Pain and Health Canada

pain management: There is a clear deficit in education of health professionals in the causes, types, underlying mechanisms, and effects of pain, as well as how best to treat it, reads a Pain B.C. and Canadian Pain Society CPS response to the study's findings, according to Georgia Asian. People living with chronic pain need better access to a range of treatment services beyond medication, including psychological support, physical therapies, integrated healthcare services, and others, it continues. That's the troubling picture presented in a comprehensive report on pain management published yesterday July 18 by Health Canada. Health Canada's Canadian Pain Task Force report notes that the country's overdose crisis has further complicated pain management. There's a perception that legitimate painkillers like Oxy Contin played a significant role in sparking the country's opioid epidemic. As the Straight has reported in detail, a sharp increase in illicit-drug overdose deaths has led to a backlash against prescription opioids, sometimes without factual justification. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.