Tiesto
Bluelighter
My opinion would be that maybe some private insurance will be covering them soon, but definitely not government. I'd look for what companies would be covering them, but I doubt any have started yet. With the media so focused on oxy, its hard to tell what's gonna happen. I just read yesterday that the US will NOT approve any generic OxyContin that uses the old formula, and that generic companies have to make their own abuse deterrent features, and that Canada won't change their policy on that. But personally, I think there's gonna be a huge fight between us and the States because of that decision. Shit better not change, or I'll be pissed. Haven't even gotten to see any of the generics yet, and I'm in southern Ontario.
Yes I'm aware of what the FDA just did too. But I also did some searching online to find out if the same thing was going to happen in Canada, and what I found was that Canada POSSIBLY wouldn't go that route. Although this article is a few months old, that what I took from it. However it's not like this is a for sure thing.
Here's a link to the article if anyone is interested:
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/11/11/generic-oxycontin/
"In fact, if Health Canada concludes the generic versions of the medicine are biologically equivalent to the already licenced, brand-name original, it has no choice but to approve them, said Richard Gold, a leading intellectual property expert at McGill University."
So yea I hope that they don't fuck around with the generics. The government needs to start covering that shit because a lot of people I know that have serious chronic pain are complaining about the effectiveness of these stupid Oxy-Neos. Why you gonna let people suffer? And if you want to get the generics you have to pay out of your ass since they aren't covered?
Ahhh...sometimes man...sometimes...
What blows my mind too is the fact that they think that "getting rid of the old oxycontin formula" is going to have much of an impact on the problem they are trying to fix. Do they really think, that people who had illegal access to oxycontin, don't have access to other opiates? Dilaudids..morphine..percs..fentanyl...etc. And then of course the main thing that a lot of them switched over to: heroin.
Do they really think this shit through?
Edit: I am also in Southern Ontario