Regulatory colleges to set painkiller guidelines.

In British Columbia, “we found out that most doctors don’t really know the rules of the road when prescribing for someone with chronic non-cancer pain,” says Dr. Robert Vroom, deputy registrar for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC. “Why should we be punishing our doctors for something they don’t know? This is one of those big gaps in their education and we thought we should do something to help doctors rather than beat them up.”