Dr. Barry Dworkin

Providing a safe prescribed and monitored source of opioids can help reduce the risk of drug overdoses by reducing the need to seek street-available drugs. It has the potential to add some normalcy into a life.

Health Headlines Commentary for April 26, 2019

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Ottawa opioid users are finding hope in a program that supplies drugs safely

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