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For three decades, his radio and television reports have brought the country and the world into Canadian homes. But “Curt Petrovich, CBC News” has been silent for two years now, on medical leave while he struggles with debilitating PTSD
When trauma takes its toll, a very private CBC reporter goes public with his pain
January 25th, 2017 | Posted by in uncategorized - (Comments Off on When trauma takes its toll, a very private CBC reporter goes public with his pain)It’s Bell Let’s Talk Day
January 25th, 2017 | Posted by in uncategorized - (Comments Off on It’s Bell Let’s Talk Day)#Nanaimo woman wants to get people talking about #mentalhealth #bellletstalk #BC https://t.co/kwWdObsu1p pic.twitter.com/VllGdo94wJ
— People First Radio (@peoplefirstrad) January 25, 2017
What it’s like to treat high school students for opioid addiction
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“If they can’t label it and they can’t ask for help, it will come out as a physical symptom. They will say, ‘I have a headache. My stomach’s really sore.'”
I’ve been working as a nurse practitioner in a Thunder Bay high school for about 13 years. I see the students for everything from throat and ear infections to rashes to sports injuries to mental-health issues. The students come from 19 remote communities in the North. Our high school has 150 students and over 40 per cent were struggling with addiction. We saw this through restlessness, absenteeism and the inability to concentrate and stay on task. Read the rest of this article at The Globe and Mail…
Young mom confronts risks and taboos of synthetic opioid in new memoir
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Amid headlines of overdoses and galloping addiction rates, Carlyn Zwarenstein’s memoir is an outspoken and provocative dispatch from the New Age of Opium


