Joel Ray, St. Michael's Hospital (IMAGE)

St. Michael's Hospital

Joel Ray, St. Michael's Hospital

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Immigrants are at lower risk of an overdose or death after being prescribed codeine than people born in Canada, a new study by Dr. Joel Ray, a physician and researcher at St. Michael's Hospital, has found.

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