Category Archives: Policies & Guidelines

Special Access Programme

What you will find here: The Special Access Programme (SAP) provides access to non-marketed drugs for practitioners treating patients with serious or life-threatening conditions when conventional therapies have failed, are unsuitable, or unavailable.

Go to https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/drugs-health-products/special-access/drugs.html to access the resource or click on the link below.

Drugs – Special Access to Drugs and Health Products – Canada.ca

CPBC – Professional Practice Policy #66 (Opioid Agonist Treatment)

What you will find here: Requirements for safe dispensing of medications used in the treatment of opioid use disorder.

  1. Go to http://www.bcpharmacists.org/
  2. Click on the “Resources” tab; “Professional Practice Policies and Guides”; and then specifically on the “Opioid Agonist Treatment” and related “PPP-66 Policy Guides” (Buprenorphine/Naloxone Maintenance Treatment, Methadone Maintenance Treatment, Slow Release Oral Morphine Maintenance) links.

College of Pharmacists of British Columbia | Better health through excellence in pharmacy.

The College of Pharmacists of British Columbia receives its authority from – and is responsible for administering – provincial pharmacy legislation. Our job is to protect public health by registering pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, and licensing the places where they practice.