A psychiatrist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) said last month that there has been a surge in the number of children needing help for mental health issues related to drug use over the past year. The surge is attributed to greater availability and interest in synthetic drugs such as Ecstasy.
Children using drugs is an ever expanding problem at the national level, reports the Ottawa Citizen,...
As Google counts the cost of it’s involvement in the advertising on internet of illicit prescription drug sites, Canada shares the flack from a United Nations report that condemns use of internet as a means of accessing purchasers of illicit prescription drugs, calling upon Canada, Mexico and the USA collectively to do more to prevent illicit prescription drug sales via internet.
The International Narcotics...
Ontario nurses, who see first hand the harm that is caused by long term drug abuse, are now demanding that both federal and provincial governments “do something” on an urgent basis about the drug addiction problem deep in Canada’s north.
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First Nation people have previously, in 2009, through their political arm, Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) made requests of government to help First...
Baby boomers are at risk of drugs and alcohol abuse as they move into old age and becoming a concern for authorities in Canada and other Western nations.
Children born post WW2, between 1946-7 and 1966 are loosely referred to as “baby boomers”, being babies born in the the post war boom, of increased opportunity, and economic prosperity.
In Canada, according to CCSA statistics, seniors are now one of the...
With cell phone subscriptions approaching 5 billion worldwide there is a lot of profit and investment today in the cell phone industry. Cell phones that didn’t exist 15 years ago, are now an indespensible appendage that we need to improve our social and business communications and to keep up to date. Banking, treasured photo images of our family, connections to and storage of everything that we value, that is...
