| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | international
Kanada/British Columbia. Coronavirus prompts Canada to roll out safe drugs for street users
Kanada/British Columbia. Coronavirus prompts Canada to roll out safe drugs for street users
(…) In March, the Canadian government urged provinces to lower barriers to prescription medications - allowing doctors to provide prescriptions for controlled substances by phone and pharmacists to deliver them - to better help citizens to practice physical distancing and self-isolation.
B.C. is the first province to apply those guidelines to support people who use street drugs. Healthcare providers are ramping up the supply of prescription drug replacements for those who live with addictions to drugs like heroin, and even dispensing some of them via unique vending machines. (Medscape, 17.04.2020)