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Treat mental-health, addiction issues together: report

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Sat, 04/10/2010 - 12:28am
By Meagan Fitzpatrick, Canwest News Service
 
OTTAWA — Mental health and addiction problems often co-exist but are treated separately — which can mean poor care and relapses for those struggling with multiple disorders and result in excess strain on the health-care system, according to a new report.
 
The challenges associated with concurrent disorders — mental-health and substance-use disorders occurring simultaneously — are the focus of the report from the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse released Friday.
 
The centre says Canada's health-care system is not equipped to meet the challenges of concurrent disorders and there isn't enough integration between the mental-health and addictions systems of care.
 

Windsor neighbours say methadone clinic not welcome

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Fri, 04/09/2010 - 11:52pm
CBC News
 
A Windsor, Ont., addiction clinic that recently moved to a residential area will consider moving again after hearing from angry neighbours.
 
The former Drouillard Road Clinic reopened as the Erie St. Clair Clinic on Lincoln Road at the end of March.
 
The people who live in the area say they're angry the clinic opened without any warning and they are not too happy with their new neighbours.
 
Residents met with the clinic's directors and ward councillors on Wednesday evening at a meeting that quickly descended into shouting.
 
"You're not welcome," said one resident. "I'm sorry you're gonna have to find another solution."
 

Cuts sever shelter's healing program

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Tue, 03/23/2010 - 5:52am

By DONNA NEBENZAHL, Freelance Published: Montreal Gazette

Since they launched the healing program a decade ago, workers at the Native Women's Shelter of Montreal have watched those in their care start to rebuild shattered lives, benefiting from a blend of native and western therapies. The program was created - and given funding from the Ottawa-based Aboriginal Healing Foundation - to help counteract the effects of residential schools on the native population.

But the shelter recently learned that the healing program will come to an end on March 31.

At that time, funding to this and 133 other Aboriginal Healing Foundation programs across Canada will be cancelled by the federal government.

Painkiller seized in Winnipeg drug bust

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Tue, 02/23/2010 - 6:16pm
By Chris Kitching, QMI Agency
 
WINNIPEG -- At a time when addiction and black-market sales are on the rise in Winnipeg, city police officers have made one of their largest seizures of OxyContin, a highly addictive opiate.
 
Saturday’s bust reflects a growing problem of OxyContin abuse in local homes, especially in one age group, a support worker says.
 
“It seems to be the younger generation who’s addicted to OxyContin,” said Laurie Magee, manager of Addictions Foundation of Manitoba’s methadone program, which has a lengthy waiting list of people seeking treatment.
 
Magee said the most dominant group tends to be middle-class high school and university students.

B.C. reaches out to most vulnerable HIV patients with $48-million program

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 5:31pm
By NEAL HALL, VANCOUVER SUN
 
VANCOUVER -- The B.C. government announced a $48-million pilot project Thursday to find and treat sex trade workers and injection drug users who are undiagnosed or untreated for HIV in Prince George and Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
 
The four-year program, called Seek and Treat, was hailed as the first of its kind in Canada and is believed to be the first internationally.
 
"Seek and Treat promises to decrease HIV and AIDS-related suffering and further prevent the spread of HIV," Health Minister Kevin Falcon told a news conference.
 
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