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Tuesday December 27, 2011

Generation Rx: One Hour Special

We received incredible response from you about our recent town hall "Generation Rx- The Use and Abuse of Prescription Pain Medication" and today you can hear a special one hour version of the discussion.

Canada is one of the world's top per capita users of prescription narcotics. In Ontario alone, prescriptions for drugs containing oxycodone have risen 900 per cent since 1991. These painkillers can be highly addictive, and deadly if misused.

Dr. Brian Goldman hosts this town hall recorded at Brockville Collegiate Institute in Brockville, Ontario. You'll hear from a panel of experts who are working to address the problem of narcotic drug abuse. And you'll also hear members of the audience share their experiences, or the experiences of their loved ones, with prescription drugs.

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        Our panelists Christine Bois, Detective Shawn White and Dr. Andrea Furlan.
        You can read more about our panelists here.

Tune in to CBC Radio One today at 5pm (5:30 pm NT). Or click below to listen now or download the podcasts (Part 1 and Part 2): 
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Generation Rx Special: Part 2 (Pop-up)

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Friday December 9, 2011

Unfinished Business Show

As we prepare to close the books on season six later this month, we have some things we want to get to before memory fails us; stories we've done this season that deserve a proper response, a second look, or maybe even a good first look before time runs out.  

Our show this week serves up some unfinished business. These days, hospitals are always looking for ways to make some extra cash to offset that seemingly inevitable deficit. Think hospital lotteries are a license to print money?  Earlier this year, a BC hospital bet and lost big on one.  We ask the President of the hospital's charitable foundation what went wrong.  We have more from Generation Rx, our town hall examining the epidemic of  prescription drug abuse that's spreading across Canada.  And, we have reaction from Ontario's Minister of Health and Long Term Care to our season debut episode on personal support workers and the work they do at retirement homes in the Province of Ontario. 

To listen to the show download the podcast, or click on the play button below.  You can also tune in Saturday, December 10 at 11:30 am (noon NT) and again on Monday, December 12 at 11:30 am (3:30 pm NT) on CBC Radio One.

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In October, we devoted an entire show to the cost and inconvenience of hospital parking.  In some cases cash-strapped hospitals charge dearly to park to help balance the books.  But that's not the only scheme they use to raise some lucre.

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Thursday December 8, 2011

Generation Rx: Mailbag

Last week, we broadcast our full-edition town hall entitled "Generation Rx - The Use and Abuse of Prescription Pain Medication," recorded before a live audience at Brockville Collegiate Institute.  Brockville, a small city in Eastern Ontario, was the setting for Ontario's first inquest into prescription opioid-related deaths.  My guests were Christine Bois, manager of the Opiate Project with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Detective Staff Sergeant Shawn White, head of the Criminal Investigation Branch with the Cornwall Police, and Dr. Andrea Furlan, a chronic pain physician and scientist at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute.  Not suprisingly, we received many, many emails from you.  Click on the link below to jump to your reaction to show.  And tune in on Tuesday, December 27 from five to six pm (half an hour later in parts of Newfoundland and Labrador) for an extended one-hour version of the show.
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Categories: Accountability, Blog Archives, Health Professionals, Patient Safety, Town Hall