Under the new rules, high-potency narcotics for opioid use disorder will be distributed by licensed AHS clinics and patients will take them there, witnessed by a health professional.
Dr. Leonard Elia Lockman, who practised for 30 years and was medical director of a Winnipeg clinic, has been stripped of his certificate and ordered to pay $40,000 in college costs.
The collaboration will expand the number of drugs within Manulife’s specialty drug care program, save sponsors and members money, and send specialty drug members to Shoppers Drug Marts to fill their prescriptions.
The update adds new info to the guidelines that were first published in 2020—with new edivence references on nutrition issues like intermittent fasting, as well as emerging drug therapies.
