Addictions

"Filmmaker Maureen Palmer set out to make a documentary following her partner Mike Pond — a psychotherapist and an alcoholic five years sober — as he searched for the best new evidence-based addiction treatments. The intent was to help others battling substance use disorders..."

OTTAWA - Canada now has a national strategy to tackle the escalating prescription drug abuse crisis that has crippled so many families, communities and First Nations.Link to the report: http://www.ccsa.ca/2013%20CCSA%20Documents/CCSA-Prescription-Drug-Strategy-news-release-2013-en.pdf

An average of six people a year kill themselves in Nova Scotia because of problem gambling, according to a draft report that the provincial government initially tried to keep from being publicized because of its methodology.

On August 29, 2007 the Department of Health Promotion and Protection launched a Nova Scotia Alcohol Strategy to lead a major cultural shift so that Nova Scotians who choose to drink do so without harm to themselves, their families, or their communities...

There is an age-old debate over alcoholism: is the problem in the sufferer’s head — something that can be overcome through willpower, spirituality or talk therapy, perhaps — or is it a physical disease, one that needs continuing medical treatment in much the same way as, say, diabetes or epilepsy?