Posts Tagged ‘mental Health’
What is it that Doug Ford doesn’t understand about pharmacare?
Sunday, September 20th, 2020
The premiers keep complaining about rising health-care costs, so why not embrace the one big idea that could control costs dramatically? COVID-19 is a time of crisis, but it also confers an economic opportunity for health care… Money need not be an obstacle, because a well-designed plan will pay dividends — not just in lower drug costs but in better health outcomes.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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B.C. moves to dramatically increase access to safe alternatives to illicit drugs
Thursday, September 17th, 2020
… the province significantly expands access to a “safer supply” to combat record overdose deaths caused by toxic street drugs…. the changes are the first step in undoing decades of harm caused by bad drug policy, and show that policy makers are listening to people on the ground. “Now the work begins on what drugs are available, what drugs we can access… we cannot continue to give drug users the least-sought-after drugs and expect them not to access the contaminated supply.”
Tags: crime prevention, disabilities, Health, ideology, mental Health, pharmaceutical
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Trudeau gets it wrong on Canada’s other health crisis
Monday, September 7th, 2020
Only Ottawa could take the big step of decriminalization and make addiction a health issue, not one for the justice system… it’s a political calculation on the part of the Liberals, who no doubt fear there are more votes to be lost than gained by taking that route… But if Trudeau truly wanted to follow the science, he would take a different approach to Canada’s other pandemic.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health
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Canada needs a national income program for people with disabilities
Saturday, September 5th, 2020
With [CERB], imbalances and biases in income security decisions were starkly exposed. Governments clearly expected people with disabilities to live on disability income benefits (such as the Canada Pension Plan Disability and provincial social assistance) of an amount… of half or less than the $2,000 a month provided by the CERB… If anything, should those people not receive slightly more than their peers?
Tags: disabilities, economy, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, participation, poverty
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National class action to be certified on funding levels for First Nations child welfare services
Thursday, September 3rd, 2020
… the national advocacy organization said that Canada’s funding was discriminatory because the federal system created a perverse incentive to remove First Nations children from their families and communities and place them in out-of-home care… The AFN class action is seeking compensation for all those harmed by the system…
Tags: Indigenous, mental Health, participation, standard of living, youth
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A just recovery
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020
… a basic income standard for the unemployed and people receiving social and disability assistance… [would improve]… their standard of living, their hope and trust in the future would grow, and their ability to participate… would increase… we need a basic services guarantee that helps every Canadian secure affordable housing, nutritious food, pharmacare, dental care, mental health care, and specialized support for people with complex needs.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, featured, Health, housing, ideology, mental Health, participation, standard of living
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Ontario and Ottawa keep failing on reforms to solitary confinement
Saturday, August 29th, 2020
The debilitating effects of solitary confinement on prisoners’ mental health are well known. There’s a reason the UN defines stints in solitary beyond 15 days as torture. It should be used only as a last resort and not, as it so often is, to put a troubled inmate out of sight and out of mind, or as a way to maintain security in the face of under-staffing or lack of appropriate mental health care inside institutions.
Tags: corrections, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, rights
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How COVID-19 kicked virtual medicine into high gear
Tuesday, August 25th, 2020
“I have been involved in virtual medicine for many years. I thought it would be adopted quickly. I was very wrong. But then, almost overnight, it’s become mainstream. Soon it will just be part of our health system. They won’t call it virtual health care — it will just be health care.”
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, mental Health, participation, standard of living
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A long-term care home is no place for younger people with disabilities
Thursday, August 20th, 2020
“We don’t know how many young people are living in LTC homes. What we do know is there are far too many”… Self-directed or self-managed care programs exist all over Europe and in several Canadian provinces… The common assumption… is that institutional care is cost-effective and self-directed care is too expensive. But that’s not true.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, mental Health, participation, standard of living
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COVID-19 could break Ontario’s mental health system, psychologists have a solution
Wednesday, August 19th, 2020
four major benefits… of publicly-funded psychological care: Freeing up physicians time to focus on primary health care; Providing equal access to mental health care… Decreasing the use of medications to treat mental health issues… [and] Providing earlier treatment, which can reduce severity in the long term and give clients the knowledge and skills to prevent future mental health difficulties.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, mental Health
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