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[11] [12] On December 7, 2022 she was named Minister of Mental Health and Addictions by Premier David Eby. [13] In the 2024 British Columbia general election, she stood in the new district of New Westminster-Coquitlam. [14]
During the first term of the Gordon Campbell government, a separate Ministry of Health Planning was created (led by Sindi Hawkins) but that ministry was later merged back into the main ministry. [7] During the same period, there were also two ministers of state: one for seniors and another for mental health and addictions. [8]
The construction of a provincially funded $101-million mental health and addiction treatment facility on the Riverview grounds, named Red Fish Healing Centre for Mental Health and Addiction, began in 2017 and was planned to be completed in 2021. [21]
Coquitlam residents are also served by many privately owned health care clinics, while Tri-Cities Health Services operates 653 residential care beds. [118] Coquitlam is also the home of Riverview Hospital, a large mental health facility, operating under the governance of BC Mental Health & Addiction Services. Riverview opened in 1913 and had ...
Almost all fentanyl seizures by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officials happen at the southern border, agency statistics show. Officials seized nearly 27,000 pounds of the drug last year, making ...
The Border Ranges are the southernmost subdivision of the Canadian Rockies surrounding the borders of the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Alberta, ...
Addiction psychiatry encompasses both medicine and psychotherapy, or professional therapeutic interaction, as the means of treating individuals. In a conventional addiction psychiatry session, addiction psychiatrists will gain a better understanding of their patient's lifestyle by gathering medical history and the patient's mental health concerns.
On September 22, Rustad announced that he would close all safe injection sites in the province, and replace them with mental health and addictions treatment centres. [ 119 ] [ 120 ] He referred to the sites as "drug dens", and pledged to end the decriminalization and safe supply policy introduced by the NDP government. [ 119 ]