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Prescription for Life: MDSCNO Summary Report, June 2015

1/6/2015

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This MDSCNO report provides key actions urgently needed to improve opioid safety and reduce accidental overdose fatalities and injuries. There is a focus on expanded access to the emergency first aid medicine naloxone.

Massive increases in opioid prescribing have made Canada a world leader in per-capita prescription opioid consumption and Ontario a leading province in opioid prescribing and high dose opioid dispensing. Ontario has witnessed 13 years of increasing and record-setting opioid overdose fatalities, which now rank as the third leading cause of accidental death, and more than double the number of drivers killed in motor vehicle collisions. More than 5,000 Ontarians have died of an opioid overdose since the year 2000, the vast majority unintentionally.

Click here to read the report.
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