Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News – June 1, 2015
Contaminated pork left Andrea Rohachuk curled for hours in agony next to an Emergency Room toilet.
Tainted lunch: Navigating gaps in Canada’s food safety system
Rona Ambrose
Health Canada looking for ways to make opioid prescribing safer
July 25, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Health Canada wants ideas on how to stop risky prescribing of the drugs fuelling Canada’s fastest-growing addictions.
Health Minister considers requiring some drugs be ‘tamper-resistant’
June 16, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Federal Health Minister Rona Ambrose is considering requiring certain prescription drugs be tamper-resistant – and she wants to know what you think.
Feds could face legal showdown over right to prescription heroin
Oct. 11, 2013 – Global News
Ottawa could face a legal showdown with some of Vancouver’s hardest-core addicts as they’re cut off from government-supplied heroin doctors say is their only viable treatment option.
Reality check: Is Health Canada giving addicts free heroin?
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News
The short answer is yes. Kinda: Health Canada has approved funding for medically administered heroin for 16 addicts – and only these 16 – under its Special Access Program. The program’s designed to provide nonmarketed drugs to people suffering from “serious or life-threatening conditions when conventional therapies have failed, are unsuitable, or unavailable.”
It has since been slammed by Health Minister Rona Ambrose on the grounds that its decision contradicts Conservative government policy.
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