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Addictions and drug use education: Enter: ‘The Brain’

A massive dome set up inside the Yukon University gymnasium is being used as a mesmerizing teaching tool providing a…

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Health

Alberta creating 2 mental health and addictions organizations, including Crown corporation

The provincial government unveiled Tuesday the first plank in its plan to reshape Alberta Health Services (AHS) into four distinct…

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Health

Health P.E.I.’s new mental health and addictions ER expected to be ‘game changer’

Health P.E.I. staff and patients are calling Prince Edward Island’s new mental health and addictions emergency department, thought to be the…

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Health

Clark’s Harbour clinic addresses barriers, stigma to accessing addictions and mental health help

Rex Stoddard knew his community needed something. Ever since a doctor who provided part-time service to Clark’s Harbour retired about…

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Nova Scotia

N.S. funding new mental health and addictions master’s nursing program at Dalhousie

HALIFAX, N.S. — Dalhousie University is now accepting registered nurse applications for a new two-year mental health and addictions care…

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Halifax

New research chair to examine N.S. mental health and addictions care

Richard Isnor remembers discussing the idea of an endowed research chair in mental health and addictions at St. Francis Xavier…

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Health

Parent calls Sask. government’s new bill a ‘smokescreen’ over mental health, addictions crisis

Warning: This story includes discussion of suicide. Bee Lawson is being remembered by loved ones as someone who lived life fully,…

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Health

This entire family died of suspected overdoses. Those left say parents with addictions need more support

Anne Doig looks at three smiling faces on the funeral handouts in her lap — one much younger than the…

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