Coderix Medical Clinic
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The Coderix Medical Clinic is a medical clinic in downtown Toronto, Canada, which focusses on serving homeless or formerly homeless individuals, and individuals with serious addiction issues.[1][2] The clinic opened in 2017.
References
- ↑ Johanna Schneller (2023-01-17). "Vincent Lam has worked on the frontlines of Canada’s opioid crisis. What he's seen haunts him.". Macleans magazine. https://macleans.ca/the-interview/vincent-lam-opioid-crisis/. Retrieved 2023-04-19. "It’s a dynamic that Lam knows well. In 2013, as opioid use exploded across Canada, he pivoted from emergency medicine to addictions and, in 2017, opened Toronto’s Coderix Medical Clinic."
- ↑ Vincent Lam (2021-11-20). "As a doctor, I was taught ‘first do no harm.’ That’s why I have concerns with the so-called ‘safe supply’ of drugs". Globe and Mail. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-as-a-doctor-i-was-taught-first-do-no-harm-thats-why-i-have-a-problem/. Retrieved 2023-04-19. "Meanwhile, in my addictions medicine clinic, patients who feel trapped by fentanyl ask me to prescribe them hydromorphone, a commonly used strong opioid painkiller that is employed in a different sort of “safe supply” currently offered in Ontario and British Columbia."
