Immigrants and racialized people were most likely to report that they didn’t have insurance to cover the cost of prescription medications in the past year, and to report that the pandemic affected their coverage.
Quebec pharmacist Etienne Dauphin also used his doctor's name and licence number to write a fake prescription for methylphenidate, according to the Ordre des pharmaciens du Québec.
Pharmacists across Canada fill more than 600 million prescriptions every year, and though somewhat rare, medication incidents do occur. When COVID-19 hit, it put unprecedented pressure on the industry.
