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The local United Way campaign announces its annual total. – Page 12
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Monster hit Gloucester-South Nepean Coun. Steve Desroches, seated, visits the set of TFO’s TV series Motel Monstre to help celebrate the show’s 60th episode. The French-language Motel Monstre has been a success story for Ottawa’s TV production industry.
Fentanyl dose, availability may be cut: expert Drug abused locally could be de-listed by province Nevil Hunt nevil.hunt@metroland.com
Senators defenceman Erik Karlsson teams up with the Boys and Girls Club. – Page 33
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EMC news – An expert on a national drug panel believes the Ontario government may reduce access to fentanyl through dosing limits and by removing the drug from the list of those available under the provincial drug plan. Fentanyl is a manmade opioid that
is up to 100 times more powerful than morphine and comes in patch form in doses up to 100 micrograms. The patch is meant to slowly deliver the drug to patients dealing with chronic pain over a period of 48 to 72 hours. Fentanyl has caused addiction and death when people smoke the gel inside the patch, which delivers the patch’s full dose in a few breaths. The Manotick community has seen the drug misused locally and one young man died in 2012 after smoking the drug. A string of home break-ins was also linked to fentanyl abusers who needed
of the expert committee’s work. “It’s a complex process,” Aglukkaq said of the panel’s ongoing research and future recommendations, adding that ensuring patients have access to drugs they need is important. Kahan called fentanyl “convenient but dangerous,” and suggested an outright federal ban on fentanyl might not be needed. He offered some hope that Ontario will unilaterally address the abuse of the drug in this province. See NATIONAL, page 9
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money to buy the drug. Dr. Meldon Kahan, medical director of the Women’s College Hospital in Toronto, is a member of a national group that released First Do No Harm: Responding to Canada’s Prescription Drug Crisis. The report, released on March 27 in Ottawa, lays out a 10-year national strategy to reduce the harms caused by prescription drug abuse. In response to questions about Fentanyl abuse in south Ottawa, federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq refused to say if a prescription drug could be removed from the market as a result
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EMC news - Carleton Heights Public School got the green light for a $2.6 million facelift thanks to a decision by the board of trustees on March 26. The budget was approved out of the public board’s capital reserves. The trustee for the area, Shirley Seward, said it was just a matter of getting approval from the province before construction begins in June. The renovations – identified in a 2009 study – were necessary because of the age of the building, the amalgamation of Carleton Heights and McGregor Easson Public School and because of the building’s age, said school prinicipal Andrew Canham. “We are having the windows replaced, they have been there since the school was built 54 years ago,” he said. Parents met at the school on March 18 to go over three possible options for accommodations of the students during the renovations.