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To register visit https://fb.me/e/5labthxfJ Sharp is in Indigenous artist who is currently a student at the College of New Caledonia. Sharp studied painting at Bennington College in Vermont and is now expanding her education into a new medium with the college's drawing classes. The work on display at Omineca Arts Centre uses natural materials such as leather, fur, wool, bark, thread, ink and paper and depicts her journey to find herself in the land. Sharp's exhibit is on display until March and those interested can visit in person following safety protocols or online. Sharp is in studio...

Year. every year thousands of american children are prescribed the drug and others like it. according to the national center for health statistics, 5% of teenagers aged 12 to 19 years old, do take an antidepressant now. is that necessary? or are we overmedicating our children? so joining us to discuss this is the author of the book, coming of age on zoloft. catherine sharp. catherine, welcome. >> thanks, alli. >> in your research in writing the book is it that more teenagers today are in need of anti-depressants and antianxiety medication or are doctors overprescribing it? that's a difficult q...

With this in that it doesn't teach teenagers the coping mechanism to get through depression and anxiety you can just take medicine or is it helpful to be able to pop a pill? >> it can be a problem. i think pills definitely have a role to play. certainly, ideally they can help people to give them the energy and give them what they need to take a look at their lives and address any underlying problems that might be there. but, an approach where we give medication as a first line response, sometimes, unreflectively and where we overencourage people to think of their problems as manifestation of i...