CSC restricts antidepressant partly over misuse concerns, but can’t say if issue is widespread

The six-month transition away from bupropion ends Oct. 31, with an advocate saying inmates being offered different drugs report 'feeling like guinea pigs.' Now a coalition of clinicians and advocates are challenging the restrictions on it and ADHD medications, and calling for review.
Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree is responsible for Correctional Services Canada, which restricted prisoners' access to the antidepressant bupropion on May 1, citing in part reports of misuse.

Correctional Service Canada restricted prisoners’ access to bupropion—a first-choice treatment for depression—on May 1, citing in part reports that some prisoners were crushing, snorting, or injecting the...

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