B.C. Struggles With How to Treat the Most Severe of Mentally Ill Drug Addicts

B.C. struggles with how to treat the most severe of mentally ill drug addicts
Such are the hallucinations and paranoia felt by those with a stimulant drug addiction. Sometimes the substance abuse is so severe it causes neurological damage and psychosis becomes a chronic condition. Combine untreated addiction with homelessness and physical health problems, and you get a health emergency. Vancouver police and the region's health authorities are desperately trying to figure … Causes of Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results

 

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