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Methadone Practice Directive New Brunswick Pharmaceutical Society 2012 Acknowledgements The NBPhS Methadone Taskforce developed this Practice Directive by way of a collaborative and consultative process with input and feedback gathered from a volunteer group of dedicated professionals currently engaged, in varying capacities, in the delivery of Methadone maintenance treatment services. Additional feedback was also solicited from other practitioners and stakeholder groups such hospital pharmacists and representatives from Public Security and Corrections Development of this Practice Directive involved a review of best Practice documents including: the New Brunswick Methadone Guidelines 2008, standards of practices from other provincial pharmacy regulatory authorities including British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador; and as well as from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, British Columbia and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health s publication, Methadone Maintenance: A Pharmacists Guide to Treatment- 2nd Edition.

Acknowledgements The NBPhS Methadone Taskforce developed this practice directive by way of a collaborative and consultative process with input and feedback gathered from a volunteer group of dedicated professionals currently engaged, in varying

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