Medicines & prescriptions
Prescriptions, pharmacists, and bringing medication into Canada.
Your pharmacist can do more than you think: prescriptions, refills, and pharmacy clinicsBC pharmacists can prescribe for some conditions and vaccinate at the pharmacy; here's what a Pharmacy Care Clinic inside Shoppers Drug Mart actually does.Bringing medication into Canada from China: prescriptions, herbal products and declarationsWhat Health Canada and CBSA rules say about carrying medication into Canada: prescription drugs, the 90-day limit for natural products, ephedra caps, endangered-species ingredients, declaring goods.Is Ozempic covered in BC? Type 2 diabetes, weight loss and the genericBC PharmaCare covers semaglutide only for type 2 diabetes with Special Authority; weight loss is not covered. Generic versions reached pharmacies in May 2026.Seeing a TCM practitioner or acupuncturist in BC: licences and the $23 MSP supplementThe four BC licence types for acupuncture and TCM, how to check the CCHPBC register, how to read an NPN, and the MSP supplementary benefit for lower-income households.