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Machine learning may help predict opioid prescription risk for patients

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Current guidelines to determine which patients are at higher risk don’t catch everyone

Published February 15, 2023
Categorised as Science, Technology, Health, National, Alberta healthcare, Alberta, Today Tagged Drugs, Addiction, Drug abuse

Artificial intelligence may help predict opioid use disorder

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Model predicted high-risk patients with an accuracy of 86 per cent

Published December 8, 2022
Categorised as Alberta, Today, Science, National, Alberta healthcare Tagged Drugs, Artificial Intelligence, Drug abuse, Machine learning

Wokeness is killing Vancouver

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Drug overdose deaths approaching 2,000 annually

Published December 2, 2022
Categorised as Life, Today, Municipal, Crime, Health, BC politics, Viewpoint, BC Health care, Eye on BC Tagged Drugs, Vancouver, Drug abuse

Finding ways to help people recover from a ‘moral injury’

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Being able to forgive yourself plays an important role

Published November 14, 2022
Categorised as Life, Today, Health Tagged Depression, Mental health, Anxiety, Drug abuse, PTSD

The false assumptions behind drugs and crime and punishment

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The data does not support progressive dogma that racism explains high black incarceration rates

Published October 28, 2022
Categorised as Viewpoint, Life, Politics, Today, Crime Tagged Coercive progressivism, Racism, Drugs, Cannabis, Drug abuse

Shedding light on injury-related ER visits for homeless

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Detailed data will help community organizations in Alberta develop effective injury prevention programs

Published August 5, 2022
Categorised as Viewpoint, Alberta, Life, Health Tagged Alberta healthcare, Suicide, Mental health, Edmonton, Addiction, Homelessness, Drug abuse

The past is a foreign country. Just ask Keith Richards

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The attitudinal changes over the past half-century are little short of astounding

Published July 27, 2022
Categorised as Viewpoint, Life, Today, A&E Tagged Drug abuse, Culture, Music

Pilot program offers hope for the homeless

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May be a solution for most of the homeless people in Canada

Published July 4, 2022
Categorised as Viewpoint, Eye on BC, Eye on Canada, Life, Politics, Today, Municipal, Health Tagged Poverty, Housing, Homelessness, Drug abuse, Mental health

The incredible, emotional and inspirational journey of Thunder Rosa

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Rosa is a tour de force in pro wrestling. She’s tough, quick, agile, intelligent and fiercely competitive

Published June 21, 2022
Categorised as Viewpoint, Life, Today, A&E, Sports Tagged Drug abuse, Mexico, Wrestling, USA, Immigration

The war on drugs is costly and off-target

A report on drug abuse released by police chiefs is less about reducing drug abuse and more about protecting police budgets and jobs

Published November 5, 2020
Categorised as Viewpoint, Politics, Today, Municipal, Crime, Health Tagged Abuse of power, Drug abuse, War on drugs, Police

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