We can’t afford to wait: We need opioid alternatives for pain

Kate Smolina, a graduate of UBC’s school of population and public health who now works at the BC Centre for Disease Control, co-wrote an op-ed for the Globe and Mail about the crisis of doctor-prescribed opioids being increasingly used on a long-term basis.

Smolina and Kim Rutherford, a family physician who works with Vancouver Coastal Health, wrote that B.C. needs better support and therapy options for people who are already using opioids on a regular basis.