Booze Is Montreal's most lethal drug. Province's committee to fight addiction releases a portrait of drug consumption
The Quebec government's permanent committee to fight drug addiction is about to tell a room full of reporters just how many drugs - legal and otherwise - Montrealers have been taking orally, intravenously or through the delivery system of rolling paper and a book of matches since 1999.
SUBSTANCE ABUSE/ Junkies and alcoholics never learned capacity for self-care, according to leading expert
Second in a two-part series on crime and violence among today's youth.
Some people dismiss junkies and alcoholics as weak characters who live only for happy hour and deserve scorn for the misery their self- destructive behaviour inflicts on others.
But, according to a leading expert on addiction, their condition likely has much less to do with selfish hedonism than with self- medication gone awry.
Back from depths of despair: Cambridge resident survives years of addiction
Billy Moore is back. Back, that is, from the depths of despair that go hand in hand with a drug and alcohol addiction so severe there seems no way out.
Background: We quantified the prevalence of alcohol problems among Alberta adults and determined relationships between sociodemographic characteristics, problem drinking status, and interest in self-help materials to reduce alcohol use.
Genes, and not religious conviction, explain why Jewish people typically have fewer drinking problems than non-Jews, researchers said Monday.
A study has shown that a genetic mutation carried by at least one- fifth of Jews appears to protect against alcoholism.
The same inherited trait is fairly common in Asian people, but is much rarer in white Europeans. The findings could help explain why Israel has one of the lowest levels of alcoholism in the developed world.
