National Aboriginal Addictions Awareness Week

Unfortunately, this will be the last post made on this page by our organization:

It is with a great deal of sadness that we must inform you that the First Nations and Inuit Health Branch of Health Canada has terminated all funding for the National Aboriginal Addictions Awareness Week effective immediately.

In an e-mail on April 23, 2012 Director, Mental Health and Addictions Division, Community Programs Directorate, FNIHB, Health Canada wrote:

“we regret to inform you that, as a result of decisions taken in Budget 2012, FNIHB National Office is unable to enter into a new contribution agreement with NCSA this year for activities relating to NAAAW. For Health Canada and the First Nations and Inuit Health Branch, the priority was placed on protecting front line health service delivery to First Nations and Inuit.”

It has been our distinct pleasure, at the National Aboriginal Addictions Awareness Week office, to serve communities in planning, supporting and celebrating this very important week each year. We have always acknowledged that the true spirit of NAAAW lives in the hearts of the people in communities and will continue to do so. Funding can be terminated but the spirit of caring and healing within the community can never be taken away.

We sincerely thank you for allowing us to be a part of your journey to “Living the good life” for so many years. Our thoughts, prayers and good wishes are with each and every community member, community worker, man, woman and child who walks this path of wellness towards a better future in your community.

National Aboriginal Addictions Awareness Week For the 23rd year in a row First Nations and Inuit communities across Canada will celebrate the NATIONAL ABORIGINAL ADDICTIONS AWARENESS WEEK during the third week of November 2012.

Children in the Cat Lake reserve have made a desperate plea to adults in the troubled community. “We feel we don’t what to do to help you stop doing Drug,” the grade 6 students wrote in a letter put together last week with the help of a local band member.

Children of drug-ridden Ontario First Nation reserve send pleading letter to elders The children of the Cat Lake reserve in northern Ontario have made a desperate plea to adults in the drug-ridden community. "We feel we don't know what to do to help you stop doing Drug," the Grade 6 students wrote … Continue reading →

The province of Newfoundland and Labrador is spending $180,000 to support the effort of smaller organizations in their efforts to improve the health of people with mental illness and addictions. The funding is to be split into 10 grants, and will provide better access to important services.

Funding to help groups improve services for people with mental illness, addictions - Local - The Tel The provincial government is spending $180,000 to support grass-roots groups in their efforts to provide support and improve the well being of people with

The National Aboriginal Health Organization is closing shortly and this has the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada calling on the government to provide Canadians with an alternative governance structure to continue the work of addressing substance abuse, addictions, su***de, high rates of diabetes and infectious diseases.

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New research has led to the conclusion that gambling is an addiction and a mental health issue. “Problem Gambling in Canada,” features a new approach in that it focuses on social influences and the cost of gambling to society as well as the individual.

Problem Gambling in Canada

Prescription narcotic addictions has been a growing problem in Ontario. A group of experts was assembled to address the issue and to come up with ideas on how to best respond to the change. Suboxone treatment programs are among the treatment options in Ontario’s new strategy to help recovering OxyContin users.

Ontario addresses prescription drug addictions | Wawatay News Suboxone treatment programs, where appropriate, are among the treatment options in Ontario’s recently announced strategy to help recovering OxyContin users.

Interior Health is providing $200,000 in grants to enhance the quality of public health program delivery among aboriginal residents. The Neskonlith Indian Band will receive $4000 to offer one aboriginal person the opportunity to earn a youth addictions certificate. The person will then be able to take the information home and work within the native community.

Salmon Arm Observer - IH grants train aboriginal trainers A total of $44,000 in grants from Interior Health will improve health-care service in Shuswap native communities.

A heart calculator stand, at Pangula Mannamurna in Mount Gambier, hosted a number of services aimed at achieving greater life expectancy and general health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. The calculator estimated that a 41-year old subject’s heart was aged equivalently to 69 years of age, the nurse attributed the discrepancy directly to lifestyle choices. The services offered confront smoking, drug and alcohol use, and promote healthy lifestyles.

'Close the Gap': indigenous urged to quit smoking When a forty-one-year-old Aboriginal man's heart age in relation to his actual age was calculated at 69, the nurse attributed it directly to his unhealthy lifestyle and chronic smoking addiction.

Sudbury addictions workers have said that the supply of OxyContin has not run out in the city as of yet. Most experts were anticipating a crisis situation for people that were addicted to the drug because they would no longer have access to it. This hasn’t happened yet and it has some people claiming that there is still a supply of OxyContin on the streets or that addicts have found a substitute drug.

No rush of post-Oxy calls since drug pulled - Sudbury - CBC News People who work with addicts in Sudbury say the supply of illicit OxyContin in the city has not dried up yet.

Saint Jude Retreats, along with other notable researchers have found Alcohol Anonymous (AA) to be ineffective in helping youth with substance use problems. New research suggests that completion of the AA programs actually raises the chances of continuing substance use. This happens because attaching the label “disease” or “addiction” creates a sense of hopelessness and is detrimental to the youth.

Your 16 Year-Old Is Not An Addict For Life: Research Says Amsterdam, NY (PRWEB) March 19, 2012 Saint Jude Retreats along with other researchers around the country have found Alcohol Anonymous (AA) to be more ineffective than helpful to young adults who have a substance use problem. AA is an alcohol treatment program that a convicted DUI offender normally ...

Ambrose Daniels was a Metis man who lived, and died, on the streets of Edmonton’s inner city. Ambrose Place, a 42-unit building on 96th street and 106th, was named in his honour. The facility was intended as supportive housing for individuals who were deemed, “hard to house,” referring to people with severe addictions and who have been turned away from other facilities.

Simons: City owes duty to consult McCauley residents about treatment centre Ambrose Daniels was a Métis man who lived, and died, homeless on the streets of Edmonton’s inner city. Known on the street as Uncle Smurf, he was an addict who died of pneumonia, aged 50. Ambrose Place was named in his honour.

Indian Horse is a novel by Ojibway writer Richard Wagamese, which chronicles a former hockey star who is undergoing treatment for alcohol addiction. Saul Indian Horse chronicles his life story as a means of identifying the underlying reasons for his addiction. The novel demonstrates how knowing your own story can heal a contrite spirit.

Book Review: Indian Horse, by Richard Wagamese | Afterword | Arts | National Post Indian Horse By Richard Wagamese Douglas & McIntyre 221 pp; $21.95 Reviewed by Donna Bailey Nurse Indian Horse, a severe yet beautiful novel by Ojibway writer Richard Wagamese, concerns Saul Indian Horse, a former hockey star undergoing treatment for alcoholism. Saul chronicles his life story as a m...