Investment standout piece from $6.4-billion health-care spending promise
Recovery advocate Guy Felicella says access to treatment needs to be easier to save more lives
Nanaimo’s Travis Baker earns $2.5-million grant for research at Rutgers University-Newark
St. Paul’s sees a high volume of patients suffering from mental health crises and drug poisonings
Coastal Sage Healing House expected to welcome first participants early next year
Length of support also expanding from 30 to 90 days
Students gain real-world experience, residents gain access to treatment, often for first time
Chris Lamoureux about to begin studying to be peer support worker
Edgewood Treatment Centre partners with Kids and Company
Women’s residential care in Interior, day programs in North
Minister Sheila Malcolmson of Mental Health and Addictions says the government is working ‘as hard as we can’ to build a system of care for youths
Of it, $152 million will be used to address the opioid crisis and see the creation of 195 new substance use treatment beds
Executive director to spend 36 hours living in a lift as fundraiser
Province awards more than $2 million to recovery providers hit by pandemic
‘Research has shown when families are involved in a patient’s care they typically have greater success’
The rally start at 3 p.m. in Centennial Square
People who use substances to have greater access to health care services
