Thousands more Canadians received substance-related hospital care during the COVID-19 pandemic than in the previous year, disproportionately effecting men and people from lower-income neighbourhoods, a study revealed. In the first 7 months (from March to September 2020) of the outbreak of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes the COVID-19 disease, up to 81,000…

San Francisco is coming undone. In recent years, the city has manifested a series of visible and persistent inequalities, with a spoils-to-the-victor world for its technological elite, and a chaotic, brutalized world for its dispossessed. In the city’s Tenderloin district, men openly hawk drugs on the street corners, desperate addicts are crumpled across the sidewalks,…

Justice Minister David Lametti on Wednesday pushed for Parliament’s second reading of a bill that would remove mandatory minimum penalties for all drugs and several gun-related crimes. In February, the Liberal government introduced Bill C-22, which seeks to amend the Criminal Code and the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA) to repeal mandatory minimum penalties…

Be Well Orange County (OC) organizers celebrated the opening of its new facility Jan. 13 with a virtual ribbon cutting. Located in Orange, the new 60,000-square-foot facility will offer mental health and substance abuse treatment services. This facility is the first of what is expected to be three buildings for Be Well OC, an organization that serves as a county-wide commitment to creating…