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Methadone Program

Annual Methadone Prescribers Conference

College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario
Toronto Ontario – November 5, 2010

Conference Theme: This event is aimed at physicians who currently hold an exemption to prescribe methadone for the treatment of opioid dependence and who are currently providing methadone maintenance treatment to patients.

Please check back for more information.

About the Methadone Program

To prescribe methadone for analgesia or for the treatment of opioid dependence, physicians must be exempted under section 56 of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.

The College administers the provincial methadone program on behalf of the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. The mandate of the College’s program to improve the quality and accessibility of methadone maintenance treatment in Ontario is achieved in cooperation with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and the Ontario College of Pharmacists (OCP).

The profile of methadone treatment in Ontario has been enhanced through outreach activities and the recruitment of physicians to prescribe methadone in the treatment of opioid dependence.

The Methadone Maintenance Treatment Program Fact Sheet provides answers to commonly asked questions about the methadone program for the treatment of opioid dependence. See MMT Program Fact Sheet.

Methadone Maintenance Guidelines

The College’s guidelines were developed for use by doctors providing methadone maintenance treatment in Ontario. Each province regulates methadone treatment and guidelines may vary between provinces. These guidelines replace the College’s October 2001 and August 1996 Methadone Maintenance Guidelines, and Health Canada’s “The use of opioids in the treatment of opioid dependence,” published in 1992.

See Methadone Maintenance Guidelines 

Published November 2005, Appendix K added November 2007.

(To request a hard copy by mail, contact the College.)

Methadone for Pain Guidelines

The College's Methadone for Pain Guidelines were developed in 2004 to assist physicians in prescribing methadone to treat non-cancer pain safely and effectively.

See Methadone for Pain Guidelines 

(To request a hard copy by mail, contact the College.)

Questions?

Contact the College

416-967-2600 ext 661