Health Insight
CAMPAIGN: Addiction Substance Use & Suicide Awareness (2022)
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Preventing Suicide for People with Substance Use Health Issues
September marks both National Recovery Month and World Suicide Prevention Day (September 10), a time to reflect on lives lost to suicide and substance use and bring awareness to how the two are connected and how suicide can be prevented. People use substances for several reasons. For example, some use substances to cope with unbearable...
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Spike in Mental Health and Substance Use Concerns Persists during Pandemic
Rates of depression and anxiety symptoms and problematic substance use that arose at the beginning of the pandemic remain high more than two years later.
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Q&A with Best Selling Author, Annie Grace
Mediaplanet spoke with Annie Grace, best selling author of This Naked Mind and The Alcohol Experiment.
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Mental Health and Substance Use
Our mental wellness depends on how we think about ourselves, our lives, and the people we know and care about, and that affects our ability to make healthy choices and decisions. Mental health is about enjoying life, having a sense of purpose, and being able to manage life’s inevitable highs and lows.
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Q&A with Humboldt Bronco, Tyler Smith
Following the tragic Humboldt Broncos crash, what challenges did you face? I think the biggest challenge was the mental journey that I was scared to embark on. I had never gone through trauma or grief and never understood how complex mental health is. So, for me, it wasn’t an easy thing to be able to...
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Overqualified and Underfunded: The Paradox of Indigenous Addiction Services
In Canada’s Indigenous communities, born out of necessity when other support was unavailable, a powerful framework of evidence-based addiction treatment and culturally relevant intervention has been developed. It’s arguably the best and most successful such system in the country. And yet these efforts remain so chronically underfunded and under supported by the provincial, territorial, and federal governments that their essential mandate becomes nearly impossible to fulfill.