Health Matters: Safer opioid supply associated with increased number of poisonings, report finds
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Health Matters: Safer opioid supply associated with increased number of poisonings, report finds
Description
January 17, 2024
British Columbia's Safer Opioid supply policy is helping with the prescribing of safer opioids but is also associated with a significant increase in poisoning hospitalizations. Those are the findings of a new report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Katherine Ward has this story and more in Health Matters for Jan. 17, 2024.
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Health Matters: Safer opioid supply associated with increased number of poisonings, report finds02:52 | January 17, 2024
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Health Matters: Safer opioid supply associated with increased number of poisonings, report finds02:52 | January 17, 2024
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Health Matters: More female doctors in operating rooms lead to better outcomes, study finds02:24 | May 15, 2024
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Health Matters: Frito Lay Canada recalling products over salmonella risks02:28 | May 14, 2024
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Health Matters: 247K Canadians expected to get cancer in 202402:56 | May 13, 2024
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Health Matters: Safer opioid supply associated with increased number of poisonings, report finds
Description
January 17, 2024
British Columbia's Safer Opioid supply policy is helping with the prescribing of safer opioids but is also associated with a significant increase in poisoning hospitalizations. Those are the findings of a new report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Katherine Ward has this story and more in Health Matters for Jan. 17, 2024.
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