Dr. Angela Mailis is the founder of the Pain and Wellness Centre in Vaughan and the founder and former director of the comprehensive pain program at Toronto Western Hospital. She argues that the provincial crackdown aimed at curbing opioid abuse is making family doctors afraid to prescribe even small amounts of the narcotics, leaving too many patients suffering in pain.
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