Prescription Drug Abuse Strategy Targets Governments, Health Practitioners

Published April 26, 2013

Prescription drug abuse strategy targets governments, health practitioners
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Published on March 27, 2013. Tweet. OTTAWA (CP) — Canada has a new national strategy to tackle an escalating prescription drug abuse crisis — but whether a tangled web of governments, regulators, health professionals and police will be able to …
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Swan pushes to keep drug court
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OTTAWA — Manitoba Attorney General Andrew Swan is lobbying Ottawa to renew funding for the provincial drug court he says is one of the most successful programs in the justice system. The Winnipeg Drug Treatment Court, one of eight such courts in …
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Fentanyl dose, availability may be cut: expert
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In response to questions about Fentanyl abuse in south Ottawa, federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq refused to say if a prescription drug could be removed from the market as a result of the expert committee's work. “It's a complex process,” Aglukkaq …
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