Latest Addictions News
Sask. NDP wants to streamline how people get mental health, addictions support
The Sask. NDP says having specialized staff in hospitals would help people get the help they need sooner and take stress off of ER doctors.
Updated: 07/25/2019 09:03P
Flooded with opioids, Appalachia is still trying to recover
It's sort of ground zero everywhere” for the opioid addiction epidemic, one official says.
Updated: 07/24/2019 11:46A
NIH establishes network to improve opioid addiction treatment in criminal justice settings
The National Institutes of Health will award 12 grants to form the Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network (JCOIN) to support research on quality addiction ...
Updated: 07/24/2019 10:27A
Pine Lodge expansion will provide 10 new inpatient beds for addictions treatment
Expansion made possible by $467000 in funding from province.
Updated: 07/23/2019 01:33P
House of Friendship to begin reconstruction of addiction centre in Cambridge
The House of Friendship has announced the reconstruction of an addiction facility in Cambridge that had significant damage from a fire on May 1.
Updated: 07/23/2019 10:43A
WeRecover Launches Addiction Treatment Search Engine App for iOS And Android
SANTA MONICA, Calif., July 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, addiction treatment search engine WeRecover announced the launch of the WeRecover app for ...
Updated: 07/22/2019 05:55P
When Addiction is Stigmatized and Criminalized We All Lose
In a recent Wall Street Journal column entitled Even Heroes Can Struggle With Addiction, Timothy McMahan King offers convincing evidence that the great ...
Updated: 07/21/2019 05:47P
Manitoba Liberals release addictions plan, secure vocal advocate to run in Brandon East
The Manitoba Liberal Party released its plan Friday to tackle addictions in Manitoba if elected in September's vote — the same day it announced a vocal ...
Updated: 07/19/2019 08:05P
Should Drug Addicts Be Criminals as Well?
Had antislavery crusader William Wilberforce lived under the American system of “drug war,” he would have been jailed, stigmatized and impoverished by the ...
Updated: 07/19/2019 04:28P
Former addictions worker worries agency's merge into Shared Health could create delays, stifle innovation
A former staff member with the Addictions Foundation of Manitoba is concerned about the plan to roll the arm's-length Crown agency into a newly created health ...
Updated: 07/15/2019 06:00A