Medicinal Smack?: Prescription Heroin On The Way For Canadian Fiends

Health Canada has scrapped a provision that was enacted under the previous Conservative government which banned the use of pharmaceutical grade heroin as something that could be prescribed to extreme addicts as part of a method of drug treatment. That means that doctors in Canada are in extreme cases will soon be able to prescribe heroin for addicts who have not responded to other forms of drug treatment.

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