Ontario's medical regulator is proposing sweeping changes to how doctors prescribe safer-supply drugs — the pharmaceutical alternatives meant to keep opioid users alive.
Tighter rules on who gets hydromorphone-class prescriptions, aimed at diversion critics. Supporters call it evidence-based care; opponents call it moral panic with a clipboard.
The 6ix lives this crisis block by block — Moss Park, Regent Park, the corners every drill song eulogizes. Whatever Queen's Park decides lands first on the city's most vulnerable, and on the outreach workers holding the line.
Sources: CBC News. Context from the Young Hadene newsroom.
Pharmaceutical alternatives prescribed to keep opioid users from toxic street drugs.
Broad new limits on how doctors can prescribe them.