Day one of a two-day meeting in Edmonton saw Canada’s health ministers, including PEI’s Robert Henderson, discuss strategies to tackle the growing opioid crisis, including a country-wide shared prescription database.
Ontario Health Minister Eric Hoskins said they are making progress on ways to fight the scourge, but the Canadian Institute for Health Information says 16 Canadians a day are being hospitalized for opioid toxicity in 2016-17, up from 13 a day two years prior.
On Friday, Federal Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor will be on hand to update her provincial counterparts on the government’s plan to roll out legalized marijuana on July 1st.