Item number nine in the letter to members of the Cat Lake reserve from the children in Grade Six is as blunt as it is painful. “It hurts us and shoomis and kokum (grandpa and grandma) when you’re doing drugs and you’re not at home.” Cat Lake is the epicentre of prescription drug addiction in Canada. Community leaders figure that between 70 and 80 per cent of the adults are

February 15, 2012 Presented to: Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs By: DRUG PREVENTION NETWORK OF CANADA 4438 West 10th Avenue, Suite 178 Vancouver, BC V6R 4R8 (604) 731-2425 Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs Re: Bill C-10 Amendments to Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA) Part 2, Clauses 32-33, 39-48, and 50-51 Illicit drug use imposes tremendous economic and social costs on society in the

The following article is written by Gwen Landolt, the retiring President of The Drug Prevention Network of Canada. This piece will be published in the January edition of the REAL Women voice, REALity. Chuck Doucette has been elected the new President of DPNC.   THE COURTS MEDDLING ON MEDICAL MARIJUANA   Courts’ meddling on issues about which they are not properly informed has caused chaos.  There is no better example