Ontario Opiod painkillers

Ontario’s Ministry of Health says it will stop paying for high doses of long-acting Opioid painkillers.

The move is part of an effort to reduce the growing problem of painkiller addiction in the Province.

The drugs will be removed in January from the Ontario Drug Benefit formulary which covers the cost of drugs for seniors and those on social assistance.

The drugs include 200-milligram tablets of Morphine, 24 and 30-milligram capsules of Hydromorphone and 75 and 100-microgram per hour patches of Fentanyl.