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Blog / BY: Rebecca Xu, BSc
... Minister of Mental Health and Addictions, the number of people receiving hydromorphone as an alternative to toxic ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... Egyptians, with their embalming methods, and other ancient people with religious ceremonies of human sacrifices, must ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
Many years ago I was invited to meet a small group of young people—boys and girls, between 13 and 16 years of age—all ... Health 1985;14:79-87.   Blog Sexual habilitation of young people with chronic illnesses or disabilities ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... intimate self- or partner-stimulation vary wildly. Some people privately accept masturbation but ridicule it ... Reading books was something new in the early 1700s, and people were absorbed in the stories they read. However, ... commonplace, and that it was most common among educated people. In 1968 the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of ...
Blog / BY: Amanda Lavigne, BScPN
... increasingly toxic drug supply coupled with stigma toward people who use drugs continues to contribute to unprecedented ... emergencies. Through consultation and collaboration with people with lived experience of substance use, a number of ... where health care staff and physicians heard directly from people with lived experience about their experience of stigma ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... in the 1890s, and with the influx of workers, medical people also found their way to the new towns of Nelson, ...
Blog, COVID-19 / BY: Rupinder Brar, MD, CCFP(AM)
... heard anecdotally the terrifying impact this virus has on people. For many of us, our professional roles in the ... trajectory and overall impact on our communities.  Many people with untreated or undertreated substance use disorder ... very least reduce harms associated with drug use and help people self-isolate during this pandemic. Recent Health ...
Blog / BY: Anonymous
... obviously dying mother (she was in a room with four other people). I was saddened by the fact that no nurse offered me ...
Blog / BY: Robert Gilgoff
... at my age I would stop epiphing.  Maybe it’s the people on bikes  Coming toward me, That I always pass, That ... Psychologist, College of Psychologists of BC Blog The only people I pass are going the other way ...
Blog / BY: Sharadh Sampath, MD, FRCSC
... we’re still accepting of discrimination against people who suffer from obesity.   If we’re honest with ... gluttony, or weakness. We can make jokes about fat people and rarely get called on it. We talk about how ... an excellent way to undermine the struggles that these people are going through. The truth is, obesity is a medical ...