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Canada's Plan to Combat the Opioid Crisis Could Hurt Terminal Patients

A bid to stop doctors from prescribing high doses of opioid painkillers could leave vulnerable people in painful limbo.
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Fentanyl patches typically prescribed for terminal patients. Photo by Tom Gannam/Associated Press

This post originally appeared on VICE Canada.

Palliative care doctors in Ontario are hoping the provincial government will back off a plan that would stop them from prescribing high doses of opioid painkillers like fentanyl and hydromorphone for patients near the end of life.

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