Heroin to be prescribed to Canadian addicts by doctors

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Following a court battle, doctors at a medical facility in Vancouver will be able to prescribe the drug to patients who have not responded to other treatments.


Doctors in Canada will become the first medics in North America to prescribe heroin to addicts next week.



Staff at the Vancouver-based Providence Crosstown Clinic have received a shipment of medical grade heroin and will begin prescribing the drug over the coming days.

Health Canada has authorised 120 people to receive the prescriptions, 26 of whom were participants in a previous trial which worked with individuals who had not responded to more conventional treatments.

Following the trial doctors wanted to continue to prescribe heroin to patients in their care, but were unable to after Rona Ambrose, the federal health minister, introduced regulations banning heroin prescriptions outside of clinical trials in October 2013.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/heroin-to-be-prescribed-to-canadian-addicts-by-doctors-9878322.html

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1. Yet in this

country some doctors and people believe that pain medication use should not be used by people with legitimate issues and they should grin and bear years of pain. Pull themselves up by their bootstraps sort of thing. SMH!