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The goal of the Pot and Driving Campaign, in cooperation with the Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA), is to increase awareness among young Canadians of the risks of cannabis-impaired driving. Canadian youth have one of the highest rates of cannabis use in the world and many young Canadians who use pot see it as a benign, mainstream drug ...
Focusing initially on outpatient treatment, their first facility was Brookside Hospital in 1951, expanding to branch offices and new locations in 1954, the same year they set up in-house research. In 1961, formally renamed the Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Research Foundation of Ontario, ARF expanded its mission to include drugs.
The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse Act (French: Loi sur le Centre canadien de lutte contre les toxicomanies) is Government of Canada legislation signed into law on September 13, 1988. The purpose of the Act is to establish the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (now the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse and Addictions), recognized as a ...
Historica Foundation of Canada: unknown Hospital for Sick Children Foundation, The: $470 million Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal: $1.38 Billion John Dobson Foundation: $20 million J.P. Bickell Foundation: $70 million Judy and Paul Bronfman Charitable Foundation $17.9 million (2014) J.W. McConnell Family Foundation: $470 million Kinnear ...
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In 1989, the CDA's predecessor, the Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment (CCOHTA), was created by the federal government in response to this challenge. [1] [5] In 2006, the organization became the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH). [3] [6]
Unlike drug treatment facilities, sobering centers are not intended to provide long-term substance use treatment. Rather sobering centers operate as an alternative to the jail or emergency department in the intoxication phase, with a stay less than a few hours as compared to the more traditional 14-90 day drug treatment programs .
Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention (CASP)/L'Association canadienne pour la prevention du suicide (ACPS) was established in 1985. [1] It is a non-governmental organization which brings attention to the problem of suicide in Canada and advocates for services, research, education and other supports in the area of suicide prevention and bereavement, across diverse Canadian cultures. [2]