Vancouver's Portland Hotel Society gives alcoholics the harm-reduction treatment
A new study by the Centre for Addictions Research of B.C. at the University of Victoria has found that the “managed alcohol program” approach reduced emergency hospital visits and arrests among participants at Shelter House, in Thunder Bay, Ont.
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Homeless alcoholics helped by new shelter program, report says
Thunder Bay city councillors will hear Monday night about the success of the managed alcohol program at Shelter House. Shelter executive director Patty Hajdu said a research assistant collected information on the homeless people enrolled — and those …
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Play about founding of AA will raise money for SA recovery program
The idea was to make the production so cost-effective that it would be ideal for fund-raisers benefiting cash-strapped alcoholism recovery programs. That plan has panned out. Each staging has raised between $ 2,000 and $ 50,000 for programs across the …
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