NDP health critic calls on feds to investigate drug companies over opioid crisis

The narrative that bad prescribing practices is behind crisis is 'just wrong,' says opioid addiction expert.

NDP MP Don Davies, his party's health critic, is calling on the government to look into pharmaceutical companies and the opioid crisis.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY NEIL MOSS

June 4, 2018

NDP MPs say they want the government to investigate pharmaceutical companies any role they played in the opioid crisis. NDP MP Tracey Ramsey (Essex, Ont.) said on May 7 in the House that there are 37 families in her riding who have been affected by the opioid crisis, which she said is more than one...

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