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Dr. Robert Cameron, the only doctor in Ontario charged with overprescribing opioids stemming from a provincewide investigation, has agreed to give up his medical licence.

At an Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons hearing on Monday in Toronto, Cameron agreed that he would never practise medicine again in any jurisdiction after April 30, 2018.

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Dr. Cameron did not return a call Tuesday from the Windsor Star to his Sandwich Medical Walk-In Clinic.

But the college outlined the professional misconduct case against the 65-year-old general physician who has been practising medicine since 1978.

“Dr. Cameron had a tendency to prescribe narcotics at doses well in excess of those recommended in the relevant clinical guidelines, for chronic pain, over many years, with few physical exams or other evaluations of the patient’s pain or function,” reads a statement posted on the OCPS website. “Dr. Cameron demonstrated questionable and at times very poor judgment in continuing to prescribe large doses of narcotics to patients who had repeatedly demonstrated aberrant behaviour, often at appointments over a period of years, and was too accepting of patients’ often questionable explanations for lost, stolen or damaged narcotics.”