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The BC Drug and Poison Information Centre (DPIC) has been providing drug information to BC health care professionals since 1975. Its goal is to help pharmacy professionals provide optimal pharmaceutical care with timely, accurate and objective information on drugs and drug therapy.
Available by phone, the Drug & Poison Information Pharmacists have access to extensive print and electronic resources, some of them unique.
Call Drug Information to inquire about:
- Drugs of choice
- Drug dosing and routes of administration
- Adverse drug reactions
- Drug interactions
- Drug use in pregnancy and lactation
- Drug identification
- Drug availability
- Pharmacology and kinetics
- Compounding and stability
- Alternative and complementary medicine
- and more…
Drug Information services are available free of charge from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, excluding statutory holidays.
DRUG INFORMATION (health care professionals only)
Lower Mainland: 604-707-2787
BC: 1-866-298-5909
Poison Control services continues to be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
POISON CONTROL
Lower Mainland: 604-682-5050
BC: 1-800-567-8911
DPIC is a program of the BC Centre for Disease Control, an agency of the Provincial Health Services Authority.
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