Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s time to talk about the overuse of antipsychotics among adults with developmental disabilities
Category: Health
Over-medicating to manage behaviour is damaging and wasteful
Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s time to talk about the overuse of antipsychotics among adults with developmental disabilities
Earlier intervention could help Canadians with autism avoid crises
Reading Time: 4 minutes More resources in the community and better training for emergency services are needed
Food is medicine where malnutrition and frailty are concerned
Reading Time: 4 minutes Malnutrition common problem for patients entering health care facilities in Canada – costing the system $2 billion annually
Housing First can curb the high cost of homelessness
Reading Time: 4 minutes Homelessness costs Canadians big money without even addressing the causes
We must rethink our approach to battling opioid abuse
Reading Time: 4 minutes As fentanyl deaths continue to rise, we cannot continue to pretend that we are on the path to solving this problem
Looking beyond our borders for health-care cures
Reading Time: 3 minutes Compared to other countries, Canada has a high-cost system that delivers mediocre, and sometimes remarkably poor, performance
The brutal truth about football’s waning popularity
Reading Time: 4 minutes As devastating hits and debilitating injuries rise, football faces a diminished audience. Can the sport curb its most violent tendencies and survive?
Canada no cure-all for health care in America
Reading Time: 3 minutes Bernie Sanders’ push for ‘Medicare for All’ in the U.S. should avoid using the Canadian health-care system as its model
For the sake of our kids, Calgary must end the anti-fluoride folly
Reading Time: 4 minutes Poor dental health in childhood becomes a lifelong burden, with consequences for those who can least afford dental care