Shoppers Drug Mart holds medical cannabis seminars for doctors, raising questions about who should be selling the product and how doctors should be advising patients about how to use it.
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Doctors to prescribe museum visits to help patients ‘escape from their own pain’
One of the doctors behind a Montreal initiative says a visit to the museum can benefit people with conditions from mental illness and eating disorders to diabetes and high blood pressure, as well as those in palliative care.
Woman seeks doctor. Must be willing to prescribe opioids
She had been taking opioids for back pain for more than three decades. The trouble began when she needed a new family doctor.
Ottawa making it easier for doctors to prescribe methadone and heroin
The federal government is taking steps to make it easier for doctors to prescribe methadone and pharmaceutical grade heroin.
U.S. drug company founder charged with bribing doctors to prescribe addictive opioid
The founder of Insys Therapeutics and a group of colleagues are accused of providing kickbacks to doctors to widely prescribe a fentanyl-based spray called Subsys, intended only for cancer patients with intense pain. CBC | Health News
Doctors ‘gun shy’ to prescribe opioids to patients in pain, say experts
A Windsor, Ont., woman says her family doctor has retired and now she can’t find a doctor to renew her opioid prescriptions. CBC | Health News
Amid national opioid crisis, Dalhousie teaches doctors how to prescribe safely
Family medicine residents at Dalhousie University’s medical school are being taught how to safely prescribe opioids to help prevent patients from becoming addicted. CBC | Health News
Doctors urged to prescribe lower opioid doses to reduce potential for addictions
With Canadians ranking as the second highest users per capita of opioids in the world, a team of doctors is recommending doctors use greater caution and lower prescription doses. CBC | Health News
