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An Alberta court has denied an application that would have forced the province to continue providing injectable opioid agonist treatment (iOAT) at two government-funded clinics slated to shutter next month amid an ongoing lawsuit.
Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Grant Dunlop ruled planned changes by the UCP government, and their effect on 11 severe opioid use disorder patients who launched a legal challenge, “will be minor.”
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“While there is an argument to be made that those changes will breach one or more of the Plaintiffs’ Charter rights, the Plaintiffs have not established that they will suffer irreparable harm as a result of those changes,” Dunlop wrote in his Feb. 25 ruling.
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