Here you’ll find our best evidence on opioids, divided under the topics of Pain Treatment; Misuse, Overdose, and Harms; Opioid Use Disorder (Addiction); and Alternatives to Opioids. We update our Opioid Evidence Bundle regularly with more evidence, including rapid evidence reviews (Rapid Response reports), Environmental Scans, Horizon Scans, and our larger Optimal Use projects with expert recommendations.
Under CADTH’s “Tools and Resources,” you’ll find tools you can use to translate research into action as well as other, non-CADTH information from Choosing Wisely Canada and the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction.
We’ve selected the following materials to get you started:
To help support decisions about managing pain, CADTH has been reviewing the evidence on different treatment options for various types of pain. Here, you’ll find the highlights of many of these evidence reviews.
Short on time? Read the In Brief.
Short on time? Read the In Brief.
Short on time? Read the In Brief.
Short on time? Read the In Brief.
Short on time? Read the In Brief.
Short on time? Read the In Brief (Summary with Critical Appraisal, July 2019).
Short on time? Read the In Brief.
Short on time? Read the In Brief.
Short on time? Read the In Brief.
Guidelines from the Michael G. DeGroote National Pain Centre at McMaster University and funded by Health Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research
A visualization of the impact of high dose-prescribing developed by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada, the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, and Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing, and endorsed by CADTH and the Canadian Patient Safety Institute.
A summary of the evidence (based on a number of CADTH reviews) on codeine for pain.
Over the last few years, CADTH has been asked to review, the clinical effectiveness evidence and the recommendations from evidence-based guidelines for treating various acute pain conditions with non-pharmacological interventions. Here, you’ll find the evidence highlights related to those evidence reviews.
Resources for people living with chronic pain and resources for clinicians.
This two-page, quick-reference map provides information on publicly funded take-home naloxone programs for the provinces, territories, and federal drug plans. This tool also outlines what naloxone is, who is at risk of an opioid overdose, and what can be found in a take-home naloxone kit.
CADTH partnered with the New Brunswick Department of Health, New Brunswick Medical Society, and Choosing Wisely New Brunswick to create this module on opioid prescribing. The module provides an overview of the New Brunswick Prescription Monitoring Program and addresses the management of acute low back pain.
Tool from ISMP Canada, February 2018
Hospital News Article