10/30/2026
Two weeks ago, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario held a special board meeting and passed amendments to safer supply prescribing that restrict clinical decision-making, prevent patient-centre care, and conflict with CPSO's own policies. Additionally, the decision-making process failed to use existing evidence or engage in a transparent and balanced consultation process.
Ontario Drug Policy Research Network has an evidence brief that highlights the ways that the CPSO policy changes conflict with evidence. Read the brief: https://odprn.ca/research/publications/2026-10-cpsos-evidence-brief/
This is a big deal. The restriction on physician's ability to provide care based on their clinical expertise and knowledge of their patient has been described as "unprecedented", as has CPSO's decision making process for this topic.
Every health care consumer and every health care provider should be extremely concerned about a regulatory college making decisions in this way.
Please consider signing this open letter and join over 600 people who have already signed to let CPSO that this is not how health care decisions get made.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeBo8-a9Fse6TOukHSF5ACcOz4CujGwpQuOZZolAli__GMPjw/viewform?ref=drugdatadecoded.ca
Regardless of your position on safer supply, politics should not be shaping health care. What's next?
