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Ontario's medical regulator approves changes to prescribing safer supply drugs

  • Ontario’s medical regulator approved changes to safer-supply prescribing practices, aiming to reduce opioids reaching the streets.
  • The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario will require safer-supply medications to be prescribed with opioid agonist therapy, such as Suboxone or methadone.
  • Patients will have to take safer-supply medications in front of health-care professionals instead of taking the pills home.
  • The college dropped a proposed eight-week limit on physicians prescribing safer-supply medications.
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Ontario's medical regulator approves changes to prescribing safer supply drugs

TORONTO - Ontario's medical regulator has approved significant changes to the way doctors prescribe safer supply drugs, in an effort to reduce the amount of opioids making their way to the streets.

·Winnipeg, Canada
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Winnipeg Free Press broke the news in Winnipeg, Canada on Tuesday, October 13, 2026.
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