Jul 24, 2018 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
In response to a call to action from Canadian Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor, wherein she asked pharmaceutical companies to restrict their marketing of dangerous opioids in light of the climbing death toll from opioid abuse across the country, Oxycontin’s...
Jul 19, 2018 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
Canadian medical professionals are trying to substitute alternative drugs for back pain in an effort to stem the opioid addiction crisis sweeping across North America; unfortunately, many of these alternative prescriptions, according to a study by the Canadian Medical...
Jul 17, 2018 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
Small-scale cannabis producers in British Columbia could be denied access to the impending legal market if the federal and provincial governments don’t make essential changes to the legalization policy. In an open letter to federal justice minister Jody...
Jul 10, 2018 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
The human brain is naturally wired to reward itself with the “feel-good” neurotransmitter dopamine when its basic needs of food, water, and sex are met. Addiction taps into this reward system to “trick” the brain into wanting more. This is why...
Jul 6, 2018 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
It’s official: recreational marijuana will be legal across all provinces and territories of Canada as of October 17th, 2018. Originally, the cannabis legalization date had been set for July, but confrontation between the Red Chamber and the House of Commons as well as...
Jul 4, 2018 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
A Newfoundland and Labrador Court of Appeal has reached its decision in the case of Terra Nova Employers’ Organization versus Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union, Local 2121, 2018 NLCA 7. The grievor had been employed as an on-call millwright by Magna...
