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Crackdown on 'No. 1
drug'
Ontario gets
strict with OxyContin prescriptions
By JOE WARMINGTON
Toronto Sun -
Tired of the deaths, crime, duplicity and misery, the ministry of health will
soon install strict new guidelines in how the "highly addictive" painkiller
OxyContin is both prescribed and dispensed, the Sun has learned.
With a new multi-layered strategy which includes modern Internet watchdog
technology, the Ontario government is about to declare war on those behind one
of this province's dirtiest little secrets.
"There will be some significant changes taking place," says Helen Stevenson,
assistant deputy minister and executive officer on Ontario's Public Drug
Program.
"The letters from families who lost a child are heartbreaking. We have done a
thorough look and this is, most definitely, an increasing and substantial public
safety problem."
Who is hooked on this prescription drug?
Addiction counsellor Mark Elliot, who runs Intervention Toronto and hosts People
Helping People on Newstalk 1010, says look around you.
It could be in your own home, classroom, place of worship or work.
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