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FROM THE REGISTRAR’S DESK
Stepping up efforts
to ensure safe
opioid prescribing
Rocco Gerace, MD
Registrar
It is the College’s
view that prescribing
opioids under the right
conditions is critical for
good patient care.
T
he College’s mandate
is public protection.
Given the very real evi-
dence that we are in the
midst of an opioid overdose crisis,
we are stepping up efforts to work
with physicians to ensure appropri-
ate, safe prescribing for patients. We
believe this can be accomplished, in
the majority of matters, by sharing
information with individual physi-
cians and ensuring they have the
resources they need to safely and
appropriately prescribe opioids to
patients.
One of the tools that exists in
Ontario to identify physicians’
prescribing pa