Magic mushroom therapy could help treat PTSD in Canadian military vets If we can bring something new to offer our veterans that have basically sacrificed body and mind for our countries, that s really our goal.
Author of the article: Sam Riches
Publishing date: Feb 16, 2021 • February 16, 2021 • 5 minute read According to Veterans Affairs Canada, it is estimated that up to 10 per cent of war zone veterans including war-service veterans and peacekeeping forces will experience PTSD. Photo by Wikimedia Commons
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PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. — Soon after Lionel Desmond left the Canadian military in 2015, he wrote a letter to Veterans Affairs Canada to complain he was feeling "confused, angry and stressed out."The . . .
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A sign is placed on a truck windshield as members of the advocacy group Banished Veterans protest outside the Veterans Affairs office in Halifax on Thursday, June 16, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan February 16, 2021 - 6:00 AM
OTTAWA - An Ontario city says it has found a way to quickly and effectively get homeless veterans off the streets in a model that could be replicated in other municipalities.
Those involved will note that it may be impossible to eliminate homelessness because inevitably someone may find themselves out of home for unexpected personal or financial reasons.
But it is possible to get to whatâs known as âfunctional zero,â when a city houses more people than the number who become homeless in a month.
HALIFAX Lionel Desmond was a desperately ill man, and he knew it.
The former Canadian soldier was suffering from severe post-traumatic stress disorder and a possible traumatic brain injury when he was released from the military in 2015. Veterans Affairs Canada was responsible for his ongoing care, but something went terribly wrong after he was discharged from a treatment facility in Montreal in August 2016.
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On Jan. 3, 2017, Desmond used a Soviet-era SKS 7.62 semi-automatic carbine to kill his 52-year-old mother Brenda, his 31-year-old wife Shanna and their 10-year-old daughter Aaliya in the family’s home in Big Tracadie, N.S.