David Juurlink (/ˈjʊərlɪŋk/ YURE-link;[2] born New Glasgow, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian pharmacologist and internist.
He is head of the Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology division at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Ontario, as well as a medical toxicologist at the Ontario Poison Centre and a scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences.
[3] He has been very critical of his fellow physicians' regular prescribing of dangerous opioids like Tramadol[4] and fentanyl.
[5][6] In June 2017, he published a letter analyzing citations to "Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics", a 1980 letter in The New England Journal of Medicine that has often been cited to claim that opioids like OxyContin are rarely addictive.
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