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​Prescriptions for dangerous alternatives to OxyContin are soaring, showing that a crackdown on the popular painkiller has failed to curb Canada’s opioid crisis.

Nicholas King, Professor, Department of the Social Studies of Medicine, ¿´Æ¬ÊÓƵ University

"The tremendous increases in opioid mortality in North America is a complex, mutlifaceted problem. Many recommended solutions - such as improving physician competence or developing tamper-resistant drugs - are unlikely to have much impact."—Nicholas King

Professor King is in the biomedical ehtics unit at ¿´Æ¬ÊÓƵ. He's interested in public health ethics and policy, and in health information, inequalities, and measurement.

nicholas [dot] king [at] mcgill [dot] ca (English) He's in North Carolina.