This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.The cost of substance use in Canada reached an estimated $46-billion and contributed to almost 75,900 deaths in 2017, with drinking and smoking principally responsible, according to a new report.
“We’re in the middle of an opioid crisis and it’s really important and it’s destroyed a lot of people’s lives,” Dr. Young said. “But sometimes because of that, we also forget the toll that other substances like alcohol have on our population as well.” “We haven’t really invested a large amount in our public health response to alcohol-related harms,” Dr. Young said, noting that some provinces and territories have, in fact, eased restrictions on the sale and availability of alcohol.
The authors used multiple data sets, including hospitalization data and crime records from the provinces and territories, to estimate how much money Canadians would have saved and the number of deaths and illnesses that would have been avoided in the absence of the various substances.
But how can this be true when our esteemed former PM Stephen Harper said that smoking pot is inherently more dangerous than cigarettes.
Remind us again of the COVID19 'death rate.'
Remember when they wanted to set up areas to safely be drug addled. Politicians have to be some of the highest paid dimwits history has to offer.
That's more than covid
But target shooting is a problem?
Cost of sugar in our diet?
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