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Effects of the new prescribing standards in British Columbia on consumption of opioids and benzodiazepines and z drugs

Alexis Crabtree, Caren Rose, Mei Chong and Kate Smolina
Canadian Family Physician May 2019; 65 (5) e231-e237;
Alexis Crabtree
Resident physician in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and the British Columbia (BC) Centre for Disease Control in Vancouver.
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Mei Chong
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Adjunct Professor in the School of Population and Public Health at UBC and the Director of the BC Observatory for Population and Public Health at the BC Centre for Disease Control.
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