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CBC on 2024-02-01 21:02

B.C. should expand safer-supply program despite risk of drugs reaching users without prescriptions, top doctor says

A new report from Dr. Bonnie Henry has called on the B.C. government to broaden the availability and types of drugs that can be prescribed under the ...

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