Recreational Drugs
A new report is shining the spotlight on the role that China plays in fueling the ongoing fentanyl crisis in the United States, calling for more action against the communist geopolitical foe from the federal government.
The Heritage Foundation released the report, a copy of which was obtained early by Fox News Digital, called “Holding China and Mexico Accountable for America’s Fentanyl Crisis.”
The report, by Andrés Martínez-Fernández and Andrew J. Hardi
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Read MoreGavin Hattersley, CEO of Molson Coors, made the announcement in a Sept. 3 memo to employees obtained by The Epoch Times.
The company will discontinue its practice of linking executive compensation to employee diversity representation, cease participation in the Human Rights Campaign’s corporate equality index, and eliminate its supplier diversity goals, Hattersley wrote.
The beer company is also ending its DEI training for employees and carrying out an audit to ensure that all its training programs are focused on key business objectives of growth and a “strong workplace where everyone can thrive.”
“With all U.S. employees having participated in our previous DEI-based training programs, these programs have been completed,” Hattersley wrote.
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Read MoreThere were no sounds of kids playing and no signs of parents on a beautiful Sunday of the summer’s last long weekend in a park in a secluded corner of west Parkdale.
Three city workers sat idle beside an unused splash pad in Albert Crosland Park.
The playground beside it was also completely empty.
There was the requisite port-a-potty to make the squatters fee
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Read MoreA recent study published in the Journal of Behavioral Addictions challenges the idea of a universal neurocognitive profile that could predict all types of addictive behaviors. The research found that while reward-related neurocognitive processes play a role in various non-substance-related addictive behaviors, these processes manifest differently depending on the specific behavior in question. The study suggests that instead of a single set of neurocognitive functions driving all addictions, there may be unique mechanisms at play depending on the behavior.
Addiction research has long focu
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Read MoreDeaths related to opioid and other drug overdoses in the Canadian province of Alberta have fallen to their lowest levels in years after the Conservative government began to focus on helping addicts via a recovery-based approach instead of the Liberal-minded, so-called “safe-supply” method.
According to data released by the United Conservative Party (UCP) government via its “Alberta substance use surveillance system,” which was updated in August, there was a 55 percent decrease in opioid-related deaths in May 2024 compared with May 2023.
The data revealed that deaths by deadly drugs fell to 72 in May, which was the lowest reported since March 2020 when 71 deaths were reported.
At their peak, opioid-related deaths spiked at 185 in March 2023. Since that time, deaths have been on the decline.
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In British Columbia, you can walk up to the entrance of a hospital and obtain illicit drug paraphernalia such as a crack pipe or a glass stem for free without any identification whatsoever.Crack pipes for kids. That is the state of Canadian healthcare right now. As long as you were tall enough to reach the buttons on the vending machine, the glassware needed to smoke crack was given to you, paid for by the taxpayer, free of charge.
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Read MoreTwo people are dead and two are fighting for their lives in hospital following a group overdose on Vancouver Island near the town of Metchosin, 20 km southwest of Victoria.
No foul play is suspected, and authorities have claimed there is no risk to the general public.
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Read MoreMexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced that his country was pausing relations with the U.S. and Canadian embassies in Mexico following letters and statements. The president says diplomatic officials from both countries had spoken out against his proposed judicial reform, which calls for yearly open elections for all federal judges.
“They have to learn to respect Mexico’s sovereignty,” Lopez Obrador said during his morning news conference. The Mexican politician said that he was not kicking them out of the country but simply pausing the relationship until they learned not to interfere w
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Read MoreOttawa police have reported a major increase in drug overdose cases in 2023 in a neighbourhood adjacent to Parliament Hill, with calls for police service rising by more than 200 percent.
Overdose-related calls in the ByWard Market neighbourhood, a retail and entertainment district in the downtown core, surged to 467 last year, up from 144 in from the previous year, according to data from Ottawa police. The increase is more substantial when compared to the earliest available data from 2018, when 77 overdose cases were recorded.
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Read MoreFraser Health has quietly removed an online portal via which patients could request to have free drug paraphernalia delivered to their homes.
At the behest of the provincial government, the website was revamped and now focuses on providing overdose prevention supplies and getting users in touch with treatment resources.
According to the Surrey Now-Leader, Premier David Eby was asked about the portal following a press conference on August 22, and said he had “concern” about what was being advertised.
“We asked Fraser Health to do a review of the site and to ensure that the site emphasized a couple of things,” he added. “One is access to treatment resources and access to resources to prevent overdose — fentanyl test strips, naloxone distribution.”
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