When Statistics Canada asked people about their greatest unmet needs for mental health care, counselling and therapy topped the list.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/
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Time for psychiatrists to ‘roll up our sleeves’ to improve access to mental health care
Canada’s expensive habit: Adding up opioid abuse’s rising financial toll on the health-care system
Public drug programs spent $93-million on medications used for addiction to prescription painkillers and illicit opioids in 2014, compared with $57.3-million in 2011, according to figures for every province except Quebec compiled by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) for The Globe and Mail. In four provinces, this class of opioids ranked among the top 10 in spending on all prescription drugs – a group that traditionally includes medications for arthritis, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
NLD Boot Camp #5: Use of Experts
Join us for 75 minutes of CPD with David Hayward, Martin & Hillyer Associates and Laura Hillyer, Martin & Hillyer Associates in part five of an enlightening seven part NLD Series.
Topics include:
- How do you know who to choose?
- When do you retain an expert?
- Using your expert
Readers puzzled by postal codes and car insurance: Mayers
When Adam Bryk moved from York Mills Rd. and Leslie St. in North York to Danforth and Coxwell Aves. downtown, his car insurance went up $300 a year, while his partner’s dropped by $40.
The new, scary face of auto insurance
Technology in the mobility space has made travel safer, faster and more convenient. The results have been incredible: The Insurance Information Institute found a 33 percent decrease in automobile deaths in the past three years. The same survey found that nine models registered zero fatalities per vehicle per million. Mobility has also become more accessible with ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft delivering more than one million rides a day in more than 60 countries.
https://techcrunch.com/2016/08
Consulting with Canadians on planned accessibility legislation
This is why the Government of Canada is committed to developing new planned accessibility legislation to promote equality of opportunity and increase the inclusion and participation of Canadians who have disabilities or functional limitations.
http://www.esdc.gc.ca/en/consu
Smiths Falls mother reaches settlement with Ontario over son’s home care
A Smiths Falls, Ont. mother is celebrating after reaching a human rights settlement with the Ontario government to keep her adult son, who has Down syndrome, living independently after they were told he’d have to move to a long-term care facility.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/
The Three Hardest Words
“Doctors don’t find it easy to say ‘I don’t know.’ There’s a tradition of knowing the answers and coming up with them quickly,” says Dr. Ivan Silver, VP of Education at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto.
Becoming Disabled
A person without a disability may recognize someone using a wheelchair, a guide dog or a prosthetic limb, or someone with Down syndrome, but most don’t conceptualize these people as having a shared social identity and a political status. “They” merely seem to be people to whom something unfortunate has happened, for whom something has gone terribly wrong. The one thing most people do know about being disabled is that they don’t want to be that.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08
It’s all in their heads
“A concussion is more a mild form of traumatic brain injury in which the brain is exposed to abnormal forces that result in transient neurological dysfunction,” Ellis says. “But ‘mild traumatic brain injury’ is a bit of a misnomer.”
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