National Aboriginal Addictions Awareness Week

The National Aboriginal Health Organization is closing shortly and this has the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada calling on the government to provide Canadians with an alternative governance structure to continue the work of addressing substance abuse, addictions, su***de, high rates of diabetes and infectious diseases.

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Sudbury addictions workers have said that the supply of OxyContin has not run out in the city as of yet. Most experts were anticipating a crisis situation for people that were addicted to the drug because they would no longer have access to it. This hasn’t happened yet and it has some people claiming that there is still a supply of OxyContin on the streets or that addicts have found a substitute drug.

No rush of post-Oxy calls since drug pulled - Sudbury - CBC News People who work with addicts in Sudbury say the supply of illicit OxyContin in the city has not dried up yet.