STEPHENSON: Nova Scotia Doctors Need to Confront Prescription Drug Abuse

Published April 8, 2014

STEPHENSON: Nova Scotia doctors need to confront prescription drug abuse
It has a stellar prescription drug monitoring program and the college developed a methadone treatment handbook in 2012 that has become “the gold standard” in assisting physicians to treat patients with addictions. The new pre-screening policy announced …
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