Ontario To Restrict Oxycontin

Posted August 27, 2010 8:21 am.

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Ontario’s governing Liberals are moving ahead with new restrictions on the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin and other prescription narcotics.

Health Minister Deb Matthews will be in London Friday to announce long-overdue changes aimed at curbing the abuse of certain prescription drugs.

A source said the government will be looking at better ways to track the overuse of prescriptions, but wouldn’t provide any other details.

Last year, a top health bureaucrat spoke about creating a province-wide tracking system to monitor how much OxyContin is going out.

The system would then send out an alert if someone tried to fill a prescription for the same drug two days in a row. The tracking system would expand on an existing online system for drugs prescribed under a provincial program that funds medications for seniors, welfare recipients and the disabled.

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