by Tom Blackwell, The National Post, March 15, 2016 Sandra Thorkelson sees them huddled outside the addiction clinic opposite her bank in North Bay, Ont., and knows a surprising number personally. They are patients on methadone treatment, though some admit to Thorkelson their daily dose of the synthetic opioid is…
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by Kelly Grant, The Globe and Mail, March 08, 2018 A U.S. addiction-treatment company has bought out Canada’s largest chain of methadone clinics, an acquisition that comes as more and more Canadians seek prescribed medication to manage their withdrawal from opioid painkillers and street drugs. Texas-based BayMark Health Services announced…
by Ben Powless, The Nation, January 30, 2018 In a scene that wouldn’t be out of place in a standard action movie, police armed with assault rifles burst into the cannabis dispensary on a calm Tuesday evening and arrested almost everyone inside. The reserve police in the community of the…