The costs of addiction
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Three years ago, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) estimated that alcohol abuse alone costs each Canadian $ 463 a year and that direct health-care costs for alcohol abuse exceed those of cancer. Let me repeat that: … One scholarly …
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Services lacking to keep mentally ill women out of jails, courts
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OTTAWA — Ontario is desperately short of psychiatric services to keep mentally ill people out of jails and courts, but the shortage affects disproportionately more women than men, the region's top psychiatrists say. As a result, a growing number …
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