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"It's not like people will not receive any services and sit on the wait list permanently," [Jim Rondeau] said. "We're looking forward to moving forward with the changes very soon."
"This is ridiculous," said Robbi Goltsman-Ferris. "We've gone through all the right channels, we've done all the right things and we're still waiting."It's a powerful opiate that's also a commonly prescribed painkiller. In the last two years, front-line addiction workers have seen an alarming rise in the number of Manitobans addicted to painkillers like OxyContin. The abuse is propagated by "drug shoppers" who visit multiple physicians for prescriptions and resell the drugs.See the full content of this document
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They Die Waiting for Help
Opiate addicts sometimes can't get help before disease kills them
It's the middle of the afternoon and 21-year-old Nolan Ferris can barely drag himself out of bed.It will be another nine hours until he can fill his next prescription for OxyContin at the 24-hour pharmacy, a dose his doctor recently inc...See the full content of this document
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