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Health Minister Rona Ambrose is slamming her own department's decision to provide heroin to certain addicts under a special access program.
The program is designed to allow patients in exceptional cases to get medications normally not allowed in Canada.
However, the department has just approved an application that would allow addicts to use heroin - a decision with which Ambrose clearly doesn't agree
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Women and alcoholism: author describes 'global epidemic'
Journalist and author Ann Dowsett Johnston is now a member of the "sisterhood of sobriety," but for years she wrestled with a dependence on alcohol.
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Call for crackdown on doctors abusing drugs
Some anaesthetists say random testing and stricter regulation of drugs in hospitals may be required to protect doctors from addictive medicines they are regularly exposed to, as well as patients who could suffer under their care.
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Website shows young people risks of mixing medicines and drugs
Did you know that taking Ritalin and drinking energy drinks to focus before an exam could cause jitters and irritability and make it difficult to sleep? Or that mixing cough medicine with large amounts of alcohol could kill you? Drugcocktails.ca a new website funded by B.C. Mental Health & Addiction Services (BCMHAS), aims to help young people, health-care professionals and partners understand the risks of mixing prescription medications, alcohol and other drugs
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Antidepressant Wellbutrin becomes 'poor man's cocaine' on Toronto streets
The first time Marty MacDonnell injected Wellbutrin he had no idea what else was going into his veins. He gets the drug from his doctor to treat depression. It's one of Canada's most popular and easily accessible prescription drugs. He also buys it on the streets, where it can go for $2.50 per pill.
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One in 20 Canadians is a food addict,
Researchers from Newfoundland's Memorial University say that 7% of women in their study, and three per cent of males - 5% of the population overall - met diagnostic criteria for food addiction, described by senior author Guang Sun as "compulsive overeating in harmful and unhealthy ways."
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New dangerous way to smoke marijuana hits streets
BHO or butane Honey oil uses butane to extract THC - the psychoactive component -- from marijuana. But heating the BHO mixture to remove the butane can have explosive effects. of Medicine.
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What Canadian Youth think about Cannabis
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