Sask. Health Authority to take ‘all hands on deck’ approach to opioid therapy physician shortage: minister

Source: Bryan Eneas, CBC News, May 2, 2019

NDP says 1 physician handling 700 opioid therapy patients is a ‘recipe for disaster’

Saskatchewan’s Opposition NDP is calling on the government to address a physician shortage in Regina that it says could put people fighting opioid addiction at risk.

Two doctors who handled 700 opioid substitution-therapy patients are no longer offering their services, and one physician has been hired to fill the need.

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