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Former addict on launch of treatment centre: Our province just got healthier By: Kevin Rollason | Posted: 4:00 AM CDT Monday, May. 10, 2021
Last Modified: 6:45 AM CDT Tuesday, May. 11, 2021 | Updates
Like Bruce Oake, Johnathan Parker needed help for his drug addiction.
But Parker, who is 39 and has been sober for a decade, had to go out of province for long-term residential treatment. It helped him break out of the cycle that began when he started abusing alcohol at age 13. By 18, he was using cocaine and other drugs.
Parker, who sits on the board of the soon-to-open Bruce Oake Treatment Centre in the former Vimy arena, said he wishes the facility had been around when he needed it.
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Free Press readers were first introduced to Jay Macaulay last December. Macaulay s journey, from Winnipeg hockey star to sexual assault victim, was the centrepiece of sports writer Jeff Hamilton s investigation into the legacy of sexual predator and disgraced hockey coach Graham James.
The life and destructive legacy of Graham James
Free Press readers were first introduced to Jay Macaulay last December. Macaulay s journey, from Winnipeg hockey star to sexual assault victim, was the centrepiece of sports writer Jeff Hamilton s investigation into the legacy of sexual predator and disgraced hockey coach Graham James.
Macaulay revealed publicly for the first time, in unflinching details, the abuse he suffered as a member of the Swift Current Broncos team James coached in the late 1980s and how his life was irreparably damaged.
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