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Source : The crucial opioid interventions Canada needs now – The Globe and Mail Benedikt Fischer is a senior scientist at the Institute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and a professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Mark Tyndall, is Executive Medical Director at ...

Source : ‘I lost everything’: Ottawa man loses home after false fentanyl bust | Ottawa Citizen Originally published August 1, 2017 The Ottawa police drug squad didn’t waste time or take any chances when it got a complaint that fentanyl was being sold out of a public housing unit on Caldwell Avenue. ...

Source : What It Feels Like To Have An Opioid Addiction | Huffington Post I’m a behavioral pharmacologist who has lived the experience. We are in the midst of an epidemic of opioid addiction and death. Almost everyone knows someone living an opioid addiction or who has died from one. And they ...

Source : More support needed to help patients reduce opioid use, doctors say | CTV News An addictions doctor in Saskatchewan says physicians need more help to treat people with chronic pain without prescribing them opioids. Dr. Peter Butt, addictions consultant for the Saskatoon Health Region, says new national guidelines released ...

Source : World’s first trials of MDMA to treat alcohol addiction set to begin | Science | The Guardian Imperial College London scientists expect to give first dose in the next two months alongside psychotherapy Doctors in Bristol are set to begin the world’s first clinical study into the use of ...

Source : https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/1/16073124/cory-booker-marijuana-legalization One advocate described it as “the single most far-reaching marijuana bill that’s ever been filed in either chamber of Congress.” A new bill in the Senate would not just end the federal prohibition of marijuana, but encourage states to legalize pot as well. The bill, proposed by ...