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Article content A request of $19.5 million in provincial funding has been made to “fill gaps in addictions care” within Timmins and the surrounding district. The request for funding was made jointly by the city along with a coalition of local physicians, mental health and addictions organizations. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. $19.5M application to enhance local addiction services Back to video There have been repeated calls for enhanced addiction services in Timmins due to rampant opioid use and overdoses that have prompted local politici...

Article content Jody Wasserman was expecting the pandemic to cause overdose deaths to rise, but she was not expecting an 87% increase year over year. Data out of the Office of the Chief Medical Officer on Tuesday reportedly showed deaths due to overdose in Manitoba went from 199 in 2019 to 372 in 2020. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Opioid-related deaths skyrocketed in 2020, data show Back to video “That’s 372 lives that were just cut short, 372 families that were devastated, 372 people who were struggling and had nowhere to go, it’s j...

Funding to fight opiate issue locally Staff Report OHIO VALLEY — Gallia-Jackson-Meigs ADAMH Board Executive Director Robin Harris recently released the following statement regarding funding received by the board as part of the state’s opiate response funding. “The Gallia-Jackson-Meigs ADAMH Board is pleased to have secured just over $1.3 million in State Opiate Response 2.0 funds to further refine our system of care. It is a well-known fact that individuals, families and communities in Gallia, Jackson and Meigs counties have been significantly impacted by the ravages of substance use di...

by Charlie Smith on February 11th, 2021 at 3:00 PM 1 of 1 2 of 1 There was a record number of illicit-drug overdose deaths in British Columbia in 2020. And the Canadian Association for Safe Supply has linked this high number to inaction on the part of the provincial government. According to the group's cofounder, Jordan Westfall, the province was caught "flat-footed during a pandemic when we needed physical distancing and safe supply". In a news release, he said that "few could access that supply and it wasn’t exactly safe, although patients were never told that.” "That needs to cha...

Article content The Chatham-Kent Health Alliance has received just over $190,000 in funding to enhance two of its mental health and addictions programs. The Erie St. Clair Local Health Integration Network is providing an extra $150,161 in base funding to the hospital’s Rapid Access to Addictions Medicine clinic, CKHA board chair Greg Aarssen announced. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. New funding will enhance mental health, addictions programs at Health Alliance Back to video As well, the mobile crisis clinic, which is a partnership with the Ch...