By Melissa Mancini
An inquest into the death of Wade Hatt, who died in October 2005 after overdosing at the Somerset Street Methadone clinic, yielded 16 recommendations from a coroner’s jury in November about how to make administering methadone safer.
Hatt had taken his girlfriend’s dose which was much higher then his and he died that night. The recommendations will now be sent to the specific organizations they affect so they can explore ways to implement them.
Representatives from the College of Pharmacists and the College of Physicians and Surgeons say they will carefully review the recommendations once they are formally received and respond to them.