Prescribing safer-supply drugs helps people with addictions — but also pits some doctors against each other
Amid police concerns over what they say is an increase in diverted prescribed opioids, some doctors are also calling for stronger rules around safer-supply prescribing. "What we have now is programs where people with active drug addictions are given drugs that they sell, and they use the money to purchase other drugs," says an Ontario physician with Addiction Medicine Canada.
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