Purdue Pharma given free reign in Canada as it is sanctioned in the United States

 By Nav Persaud and Andrew S. Boozary Purdue Pharma recently announced that it will stop advertising opioids to doctors in the United States after pleading guilty to misleading marketing more than a decade ago. This is a major, albeit belated, departure from the company’s playbook of marketing opioids aggressively to physicians. A

Do taxi drivers lack access to essential medicines because our MPs have it?

 By Nav Persaud The MPs mulling options for publicly funding medications this week will likely take their sweet time. There is no rush for them because they already have the type of publicly funded access to medications that is being contemplated for other Canadians. While approximately three million Canadians do not take