"Dr. Rhea MacDonald and her colleagues designed the “Inverness Model” which has successfully and drastically reduced the excessive prescribing of monitored drugs in that community and is catching on across the country.

Dr. Rhea MacDonald, a family physician in Inverness, Cape Breton was uncomfortable with her own opioid prescribing practices and felt she had to make some changes to deliver better care and to prescribe more responsibly.

She learned that six of her physician colleagues had similar worries, and they decided to tackle the problem together."

Read the full article at Doctors Nova Scotia