Sunnybrook: MGR: The Opioid Public Health Crisis in Ontario

MEDICAL GRAND ROUNDS

Wednesday, February 23, 2011
12:00 to 1:00 p.m.

R.S. McLaughlin Lecture Theatre, Room EG-61

The Opioid Public Health Crisis in Ontario

Dr. Irfan Dhalla
Lecturer, Departments of Medicine & Health Policy, Management & Evaluative

University of Toronto

Objectives

1.      To appreciate how the crisis arose.

2.      To understand the extent of opioid-related harm in Ontario.

3.  To consider several potential strategies for reducing opioid-           related harm.