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Most BC doctors don’t use painkiller database meant to prevent overdoses
November 24, 2015 | CTV News
VANCOUVER — Overdose deaths could be reduced in British Columbia if more doctors used a provincial database to track prescriptions for painkillers, a new report says. The BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS said in its report that opioids such as oxycodone are increasingly being overprescribe...
Make PharmaNet check mandatory, report urges
November 24, 2015 | The Globe and Mail
Forcing doctors to register with BC’s prescription database would help ensure patients are not receiving too many of the dangerous opioids behind fatal overdoses, addiction and other serious problems, according to a new report. Less than a third of British Columbia’s physicians are using...
Fentanyl overdose deaths can be prevented by prescription monitoring system, report says
November 24, 2015 | CBC News
Less than 30% of doctors in BC use Pharmanet, the software that keeps track of a patient’s prescriptions A new report published today is calling for tighter regulations on physicians prescribing drugs, especially opioids like fentanyl or oxycontin – something it says will reduce the numb...
Drug safety tool being ignored by BC doctors
November 24, 2015 | The Vancouver Sun
Make PharmaNet check mandatory, report urges BC is in a unique position in Canada to potentially reduce the number of prescription drug overdoses by requiring all physicians to check a patient’s PharmaNet profile before writing or filling a prescription, according to a new report. As well, the...
CBC: Interview with Dr. Evan Wood and Leslie McBain on addiction medicine
November 24, 2015 | CBC News
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