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Last week the Canadian Medical Association issued new guidelines for the use of painkilling opioid drugs: “In the battle against opioid addiction, doctors are being told to ‘put down the prescription pad’ The powerful drugs should be used only for chronic pain, primarily for cancer, and then gradually wean patients off of them.”

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