12 October 2016 - Ontario plans to treat patients addicted to opioids with a safer but more expensive pharmaceutical therapy and to open pain clinics to improve access to medical care.

Health Minister Eric Hoskins will unveil the measures at a news conference on Wednesday as part of the government’s wide-ranging response to Canada’s opioid crisis. They will be overseen by Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, David Williams.

The province’s Ministry of Health plans to add Suboxone to its drug formulary as a regular benefit, making it a first-line treatment for opioid addiction, according to sources in the medical community.

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