{"id":77568,"date":"2016-06-19T22:30:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T02:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=77568"},"modified":"2016-06-19T22:30:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T02:30:23","slug":"health-canada-program-requires-trying-outdated-meds-first-psychiatrist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/06\/19\/health-canada-program-requires-trying-outdated-meds-first-psychiatrist\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Canada program requires trying outdated meds first: psychiatrist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/shutterstock_138280871.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45903\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/shutterstock_138280871.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_138280871\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/shutterstock_138280871.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/shutterstock_138280871-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/shutterstock_138280871-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA\u2014A psychiatrist who has worked in First Nations communities says Health Canada makes some on-reserve patients jump through hoops\u2014or wait longer\u2014than non-indigenous Canadians to access prescription drugs their doctors believe they need to treat mental illnesses.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Cornelia Wieman says she&#8217;d have to try out of date medications and have a patient fail on them before funding is approved for new ones.<\/p>\n<p>The issue is linked to the non-insured health benefits program at Health Canada which provides about $1 billion in annual coverage to eligible First Nations and Inuit people for a limited range of prescription drugs that aren&#8217;t covered under provincial, territorial or private plans.<\/p>\n<p>The drugs benefit list includes four antipsychotic drugs that can be used only under limited conditions and require pre-approval from Health Canada though all are covered under general benefits in the Ontario drug plan.<\/p>\n<p>Wieman was testifying on the issue at the parliamentary committee studying the high suicide rate in indigenous communities.<\/p>\n<p>Yvonne Jones, the parliamentary secretary to Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett, told The Canadian Press earlier this year that the Liberal government is aware of the issues with the non-insured health benefits program and is considering reform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA\u2014A psychiatrist who has worked in First Nations communities says Health Canada makes some on-reserve patients jump through hoops\u2014or wait &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":45903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[11010,9964,11310,5946,2552],"class_list":["post-77568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-first-nation","tag-health-canada","tag-medication","tag-medicine","tag-psychiatrist","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}