Reducing the community-prescribed opioid load: A public health approach to the opioid epidemic

Julia Lew, MS1, BSc; Kieran Moore, MD, CCFP(EM), FCFP, MPH, DTM&H, FRCPC

doi:10.5055/jom.2016.0337

Authors

Julia Lew, MS1, BSc
Kieran Moore, MD, CCFP(EM), FCFP, MPH, DTM&H, FRCPC

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5055/jom.2016.0337

Keywords:

opioid, opioid epidemic, public health

Abstract

No abstract

Author Biographies

Julia Lew, MS1, BSc

School of Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Kieran Moore, MD, CCFP(EM), FCFP, MPH, DTM&H, FRCPC

Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

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