Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
Etamivan (INN, or ethamivan (); trade names Analepticon, Emivan, and Vandid) is a respiratory stimulant drug [1] related to nikethamide.It was mainly used in the treatment of barbiturate overdose [2] and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, [3] but has now largely fallen into disuse.
The Canadian Red Cross pleaded guilty to criminal charges related to distributing tainted blood products and infecting Canadians with HIV and hepatitis C. [9] [10] [11] As of 2003, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police blood task force had an ongoing investigation into the Arkansas blood sells. [12]
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 .
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 ...
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.
Haley told the Register Wednesday that Trump's rhetoric of immigrants "poisoning the blood" of America is "not constructive" and "not necessary." "I think we need to secure the border," she said ...
The majority of poison centers were not part of a patient treatment facility; they strictly provided information. In 1958 the American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC) was founded to promote cooperation between poison centers in different cities and to standardize the operation of these centers. An additional part of the AAPCC's ...