Mental Health And Addictions

• Alberta launches new mental health and addictions agency, Edmonton marks Overdose Awareness Day

  While families remember loved ones lost to toxic drug overdoses, they question whether the province's new health agency called Recovery Alberta will be the change that is needed.

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  Sep 1
  
• ‘More time is required’: New Brunswick legislature to delay forced rehab bill

  New Brunswick's proposed bill to force addicted individuals into rehab in certain cases is being delayed. The controversial plan's fate may now rest on the October election.

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  May 3
  
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• New Kelowna, B.C. complex-care housing units to support mental health, addictions

  An empty lot on Pacific Avenue in Kelowna, B.C., will soon be home to 20 complex-care and 20 supportive housing units.

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  Apr 15
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• Saskatchewan partners with Alberta and Ontario to battle mental illness and addiction struggles

  Over the last two days, ministers from Alberta, Sask., and Ontario met in Calgary for the eighth annual Recovery Capital Conference of Canada.

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  Apr 4
• 83 new treatment and recovery beds to open in B.C. this summer

  The B.C. government touted the "record expansion" one day after the chief coroner revealed more than 2,500 people had died from the toxic drug crisis in B.C. in 2023.

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  Jan 25
• Saskatchewan government halts supports for free drug materials like pipes

  Saskatchewan Minster of Mental Health and Addictions Tim McLeod said that third party organizations would no longer be able to supply drug materials with government funding.

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  Jan 18
• B.C. funds plans for northern youth centre with mental heath, addictions support

  Premier David Eby young people in northern B.C., especially Indigenous youth, should be able to get the care they need close to home, without having to travel.

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  Jan 16
• 60 addictions treatment beds added near Lumsden, Sask.

  The former Living Skies Retreat building near Lumsden, Sask. will be used for addiction treatment beds.

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  Jan 4
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• More than 90 people treated at new addictions care centre in Vancouver

  The Road to Recovery initiative launched in what were old research offices at the Vancouver hospital. It started with 14 detox beds and added another 20 transition beds in October.

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  Dec 4, 2023
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• Tri-Cities call on province to share healing centre policing costs

  A treatment centre in the Tri-Cities needs more provincial support in order to operate safely, the mayor of Port Coquitlam, B.C., says.

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  Nov 24, 2023