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Monday, September 20, 2021 8:00 AM
It is not acceptable to interrupt vital, life-saving services to exercise the right to protest, and it’s taking a toll on care providers’ mental health.
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Wednesday, September 15, 2021 2:15 PM
We are working hard to build a seamless, integrated system of mental health and substance-use care that can be accessed quickly and close to home.
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Monday, August 23, 2021 6:30 AM
If you’re feeling grief, anxiety or stress around disasters and health emergencies, you’re not alone.
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Monday, July 12, 2021 6:00 AM
If you’re feeling anxious about B.C. reopening, you’re not alone.
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Monday, May 3, 2021 8:00 AM
Monday, May 4, 2020 9:30 AM
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed almost every aspect of our lives.
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Tuesday, April 21, 2020 5:00 PM
British Columbia is in the midst of two major public health emergencies. The first is the on-going overdose crisis, and while overall death rates have started to come down, it continues to take a heart-breaking toll on families and communities across B.C. The second, of course, is the COVID-19 pandemic, which has drastically changed all our lives.
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Tuesday, August 7, 2018 9:45 AM
Every day, three or four more British Columbians die from a drug overdose. It’s the worst public health crisis to hit our province in decades.
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Wednesday, August 16, 2017 11:01 AM
The stories of people taken by the overdose crisis come from every corner of the province. A forestry worker in the North who became addicted to painkillers for a workplace injury and then turned to street drugs. Friends celebrating after a wedding in the Interior. Suburban parents who left behind young children. Middle-aged men who were clean and sober for years.
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Tuesday, August 1, 2017 1:45 PM
Last week I met Don, a carpenter who became addicted to painkillers after an injury he got on the job. He ended up on the streets, and says he was in and out of the hospital about 100 times over a period of four years.
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