Ontario's medical regulator approves changes to prescribing safer supply drugs
The board said the new rules will require opioid agonist therapy and supervised dosing, while more than 87% of patients already receive both treatments.
- On Tuesday, The College approved significant changes to prescribing safer supply medications, requiring patients to consume drugs under professional supervision to reduce street-level diversion.
- Police and health organizations, including Addiction Medicine Canada and the Ontario Medical Association, reported that prescribed safer supply medications are being diverted to the black market.
- Physicians must now prescribe safer supply only with opioid agonist therapy, such as Suboxone, while The College dropped a proposed eight-week limit despite concerns about the 12 per cent of patients it may not serve.
- Critics warn the new supervised consumption requirements create barriers for employed patients and those in rural Ontario unable to visit pharmacies daily, though Health Minister Sylvia Jones has expressed support for the changes.
- Patrick Safieh, the board's chair, stated The College will monitor outcomes and adjust if necessary. "We're trying to prevent diversion as much as possible," Safieh said.
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Ontario physicians must now administer safer supply opioids under direct observation
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) is implementing new mandatory rules that restrict how physicians prescribe safer supply medications, specifically requiring that these drugs be administered only alongside opioid agonist therapy and dispensed directly in front of a health-care professional. This institutional decision, approved by the college's board of directors, alters the operational mechanism of safer supply programs b…
Ontarians prescribed safer supply drugs will now have to take them in front of health-care professionals
Ontario's medical regulator has approved significant changes to the way doctors prescribe safer supply drugs, in an effort to reduce the amount of opioids making their way to the streets.
The Toronto Star
Ontario to change how people with addictions get safer-supply opioids, in a bid to stop drugs being diverted to the street
It will mark a big shift in how people with opioid use disorder access potent pharmaceutical opioids from a safe source.
Ontario’s medical regulator approves changes to prescribing safer supply drugs
TORONTO - Ontario's medical regulator approved significant changes Tuesday to the way doctors prescribe safer supply drugs, in an effort to reduce the amount of opioids making their way to the streets.
Winnipeg Free Press
Ontario's medical regulator approves changes to prescribing safer supply drugs
TORONTO - Ontario's medical regulator has approved significant changes to the way doctors prescribe safer supply drugs, in an effort to reduce the amount of opioids making their way to the streets.
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