Van Mag War on War on Drugs Nov 2012

50 years after Canada implemented universal access to health care, Canadian politicians say the survival of the country’s network of government-funded health systems is in jeopardy. Spooked by rapidly increasing …

Indications of a staggering level of prescription drug abuse by Aboriginal youths have left experts urging a more coordinated approach to the problem: Responses to Health Canada’s national Youth Smoking Survey …

The contrast is alarming, experts say. In the United States, judicial decisions and regulatory announcements are becoming daily fodder for news mills as the evidence mounts against subtherapeutic farmyard use …

Canada’s new mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenders are based on “very bad criminal law policy” and constitute a threat to public health as well as the concept of judicial …

Call it a quandary of epidemic proportions. Imagine a population group in which 30% of its members have a specific disease. It can be treated, but at a relatively stiff …

While most of the banking community back in Canada continues to fight over a mature domestic market and obsess over halting progress in the United States, Scotia has been busily …

Fred Coulter traces his decision to sue the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma (Canada) back to 1994, when a heavy roller in the London, Ontario printing plant where he worked fell …

Call it medically induced and law-abiding addiction. Experts says it’s harder to kick than heroin and they’re so astonished by its growing incidence that they’re arguing for Canada to move …

Vastly improved monitoring of addictive painkillers is needed to handle the scourge of inappropriate opioid prescribing, dispensing and use in Canada, experts say. But dithering and empire building by federal …