Between 2015 and April 2018, the Health Canada documents show hospitals in the region reported more than 7,800 units of various narcotics missing. The Health Canada records contain more than 250 cases, accounting for all of the drugs known to be missing from B.C.’s Lower Mainland. All “unexplained.” Each Health Canada record includes a section detailing steps the hospital plans to take to prevent future losses. The narcotics he diverted would never show up in Health Canada data because they were never recorded as a loss. Some hospital patients will be given prescriptions for painkillers on an as-needed basis, like with morphine, for example.

Source: thestar February 15, 2019 12:56 UTC