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.