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- 9/22/2019
New national guideline sets out best practices for delivering injectable opioid agonist treatment
A new Canadian guideline lays out the optimal strategies for providing injectable opioid agonist treatment with prescription heroin and hydromorphone for people with severe opioid use disorder. - 9/22/2019
Health Canada urges caution about using gabapentin or pregabalin with opioids
Using gabapentinoids with opioids increases risk for opioid overdose and other severe adverse effects - 9/22/2019
First expert analysis of medication incidents and near misses released in Ontario
The AIMS program will be fully rolled out to all 4,500+ community pharmacies later this fall - 9/22/2019
Dovato: new two-drug complete regimen for HIV treatment
Combines an integrase strand transfer inhibitor and a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor in a single-tablet once-daily regimen - 9/19/2019
'Our business plan was not sustainable;' president Dr. Hugo Viens on the end of the QMA
Harshly affected by a decline in membership, the Quebec Medical Association (QMA) announced its dissolution and the sale of its assets to the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) at an extraordinary general meeting on September 7. - 9/18/2019
Health professionals express concerns over rates of youth hospitalizations due to substance use
A new Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) analysis reveals that a substantial number of people age 10 to 24 are being hospitalized for harmful substance use and highlights the impacts of cannabis, alcohol, opioids and other substances on youth in Canada. - 9/18/2019
Ontario youth with vaping related illness was on life support: officials
The report about the case came just hours after Ontario's health minister ordered all public hospitals to report vaping-related cases of severe pulmonary disease