I believe so, I'm sad to say. Health Canada probably doesn't have the staff, but why do we need all this generic oxycodone when Health Canada has pulled from the formulary OxyContin? They've replaced it with OxyNEO, which is more tamper resistant. However, that doesn't mean it's less addictive. My son never snorted or crushed. He took his medication as prescribed, and he was started on Percocet. He died in his bed at home. The doctor had given him hydromorphone, and by the way, Canada is the top consumer worldwide per person of hydromorphone.
Getting back to your question, they've put out oxycodone generic. It doesn't make any sense to me why someone would do that. I think there are laws that protect patents and other business and economic laws that upstage the patient's safety and the drug safety aspect of it. That's what I've seen from my research across Canada and the U.S. There's been a lot of misinformation given to Health Canada. If you followed the lawsuits, they paint a picture for us, for Paxil, for Ritalin, for all of them, especially with Purdue Pharma. They were charged in 2007. They pleaded guilty, and yet we still have their products.
Why do we need so many opioids? We've been talking about monitoring, and databases, and naloxone. These are all great, but these are after the fact. We want to be preventing this harm. Our doctors have to have the information up front. These are life or death decisions. My son didn't have to die. This was just a big marketing scam, and it continues that way.
I'm sorry. I gave you a long-winded answer, but there's a lot of information on that.