Opioid Overdose Rule Harms Cancer Patients
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BC opioid rules were aimed at reducing overdoses. But they cut cancer patients' pain meds

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New study finds changes to British Columbia's practice standard inadvertently harmed cancer and palliative-care patients.
Rules were designed to reduce prescription drug misuse, including over-prescribing of opioids among patients with chronic non-cancer related pain.
Lead author Dimitra Panagiotoglou says there was a "spillover" effect as doctors applied "aggressive tapering" of painkillers.
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC revised its standard in 2018 to address concerns that they were being misinterpreted.
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