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Prescribing more than medicine

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The ‘ Tootoo Train’ appears back on track after player dealt with his inner demons

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‘Soles remembering souls’ Sunday November 23 at 2 p.m.

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Thousands in B.C. prescribed drug that can have ‘serious, toxic effects,’ doctor says

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VANCOUVER – Use of a popular smoking cessation and depression medication led to 64 hospitalizations — including 22 cases admitted to critical care — last year in B.C., according to the province’s Drug and Poison Information Centre.

The centre handled 95 calls last year about bupropion overdoses, including 22 cases where the wrong dosage was taken, 47 cases of suspected suicide attempts and nine cases of misuse or abuse. There was one death. Burpropion is marketed under the brand names Wellbutrin and Zyban.  Read the rest of this story at Vancouver Sun…

Remembering loved ones lost to suicide

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‘Black Diamond Dust’ a personal journey for curator Jesse Birch

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“I grew up in what was originally a miner’s house on Jingle Pot Road, across the street from the Miners Park subdivision where, in the 1980’s, I delivered newspapers on Coal Tyee Trail and Black Diamond Drive”

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Black Diamond Dust is a multi-site art exhibition which considers the coal mining industry that Nanaimo was built upon, an industry that both formed and fragmented communities through economic development, racial segregation and labour inequity, and served as the foundation of global industrialization. It runs until December 13, 2014.

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