Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Courts transforming lives

Society tends to offer little sympathy to drug addicts and alcoholics who commit crime to feed their addiction. After all, many end up on an endless cycle of prison lags only to use drugs inside where they learn new ways of committing crime through hardened career criminals. But what if addiction was treated as a
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‘Heroin is very good at getting rid of all my problems’: drugs and sexism in India

After selling heroin on the streets all morning, former school teacher Jenny is tired and in need of her next hit. Carrying her earnings, she travels to a decrepit house on the outskirts of Imphal, capital of the north-eastern Indian state of Manipur, to find some relief. It’s here that drug users openly inject and
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Esgenoôpetitj needs on-reserve drug treatment program, says Ontario doctor

Dr. Claudette Chase, who has spent her career working with isolated First Nations in northwestern Ontario, says the key to fighting opiate addiction is to provide treatment within a community instead of sending people away for help. Chase, a family doctor, has been following the crisis in New Brunswick’s Esgenoôpetitj First Nation. Since April 10, five people have
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