The Government of Canada will hold a two-day Opioid Symposium in Toronto, Ontario bringing together close to 200 participants to reverse the trend of the national overdose epidemic. The Symposium will bring together policy-makers, experts and people with lived and living experience to discuss solutions to the crisis.
As an emergency measure in response to the ongoing shortages of EpiPen (0.3 mg) and EpiPen Jr (0.15 mg), the Minister of Health today announced that she has signed an Interim Order that will facilitate the import into Canada of Auvi-Q epinephrine auto-injectors in 0.3 mg and 0.15 mg formats.
The governments of Canada and New Brunswick invest more than $7 million in innovative treatment options for people who engage in problematic substance use
Health Canada is proposing to phase out all outdoor agricultural and turf uses for clothianidin, and all outdoor agricultural and ornamental uses for thiamethoxam in the next three to five years.