Dr. Alice Ordean, MD, CCFP (AM), MHSc, FCFP, FASAM  
Dr. Ordean is a family physician and an addiction medicine consultant at St. Joseph’s Health Centre in Toronto, where she is also the medical director of the Toronto Centre for Substance Use in Pregnancy (T-CUP). She is an associate professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto and an investigator with the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at Unity Health Toronto.

Dr. Ordean developed the Addiction Toolkit content on alcohol use in pregnancy and contributed to the content on alcohol problems in women. She also updated the content related to opioid use and opioid use disorders.
  

 Authors and Editors of previous versions of the Primary Care Addiction Toolkit (2010-2019)

• Chief editor: Kingsley Watts, MD, CCFP, FCFP, MRO
• Contributing editor: Meldon Kahan, MD, CCFP, FCFP, FRCPC
• Lisa Lefebvre, MDCM, CCFP, MPH, DABAM
• Jose Silveira, MD, FRCPC
• Sheryl Spifhoff, MD, CCFP Dip. ABAM

In Opioid Use and Opioid Use Disorder:

• Screening
  • Identifying unhealthy opioid use
  • Identifying opioid use disorder
  • Screening tools for unhealthy opioid use
• Assessment
  • Clinical assessment of opioid use disorder
  • Urine drug testing  
• Pain management
  • Prescribing opioids for pain patients at risk of unhealthy use
  • Opioid dosing in pain patients at risk of unhealthy use
  • Tapering opioids in pain patients at risk of unhealthy use
  • Prescribing opioids for pain patients with opioid use disorder
• Opioid use disorder treatment
  • Managing opioid withdrawal
  • Treatment options for opioid use disorder
  • Buprenorphine
  • Methadone
  • Slow-release oral morphine
  • Injectable opioid agonist therapy
• Tools and resources
• References
• About the authors and editors