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 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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