The Dangerous Dance of a Dual Diagnosis
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30 August, 2024
The Lifeguard Blog
How To Bring Lifeguard To Your Community
As the impacts of the overdose crisis continue to worsen, empowering communities with the means to combat the overdose crisis has never been more important. The Lifeguard App, by Lifeguard Digital Health, has persisted as a driving force in protecting communities across the country from the effects ...
10 September, 2021
Lifeguard Digital Health Partners With Penington Institute For International Overdose Awareness Day 2021
Lifeguard Digital Health has remained committed to developing digital health solutions to reverse the effects of the overdose crisis. To forward this initiative, Lifeguard Digital Health has partnered with Penington Institute of Australia to strengthen the promotional efforts surrounding public awar...
23 August, 2021
British Columbia, a Leader in Addiction Services
British Columbia continues to be at the forefront of treatment for street drug use, declaring the surge in overdoses related to it a public health emergency in 2016. Understanding that mental health issues and addiction are interlinked, and in an effort to de-stigmatize problematic illicit drug use,...
18 February, 2021
The Path From Prescription to Addiction
Anyone who takes prescription opioids can become addicted to them. In fact, 1 in 4 people who are prescribed opioids struggle with addiction. Once addicted, it can be hard to stop. Canada is the second-largest per capita consumer of opioids in the world. In 2018, almost......
11 June, 2020
Lifeguard Digital Health partners with B.C. Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions to launch opioid overdose prevention app
The opioid crisis resulting in deaths by overdose remains a public health emergency in Canada with close to 3000 reported deaths in late 2019. Western Canada is the most impacted region with almost 800 of the reported mortalities caused by synthetic opioid overdoses. The majority......
20 May, 2020
Living through dual public health emergencies – the overdose crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic
In his press briefing on May 6, 2020 the Premier of British Columbia, John Horgan, acknowledged that the COVID-19 pandemic was unfolding on top of another ongoing public health emergency that was first declared four years ago – the overdose crisis that has resulted in......
10 May, 2020