Opinion: War on drugs has become war on patients coping with pain

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta is happy lately, at least according to the medical regulator’s new registrar. Dr. Scott McLeod wrote in these pages last week that doctors contributed to Alberta’s “opioid crisis” by over-prescribing, and now they’re going to help fix it.  “We need to prescribe opioids more appropriately,” he wrote, “and that means less. Already, prescriptions for Albertans in pain are way down, and t