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29 November, 2024

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1725056817436{margin-top: 30px !important;margin-bottom: 30px !important;}"] Unraveling the Connection between Substance Use and Mental Health [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]An estimated 46 percent of all people will have some form of mental health condition during their lifetime, and 46.3 million people aged 12 or...

30 August, 2024

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1722450129414{margin-top: 30px !important;margin-bottom: 30px !important;}"] From Festival Season to Heatstroke, We’ve Got You Covered [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]What is the most common answer received when asking someone's favourite season? If you answered summer, you'd be...

31 July, 2024

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1719353118911{margin-top: 30px !important;margin-bottom: 30px !important;}"] Protecting Students from Toxic Drug Poisoning with LifeguardConnect™ [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]University and college is an exhilarating time in a young person's life. It's a time when you get to feel the most free and "adult" you...

25 June, 2024

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1719353438933{margin-top: 30px !important;margin-bottom: 30px !important;}"] Mental Health Awareness Month [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Views on mental health have come a long way. In previous centuries, treatment ranged from lobotomy and exorcism to bloodletting and asylum commitment. The ways mental health was approached were...

23 May, 2024

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...

10 September, 2021

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...

18 February, 2021

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 1...

11 June, 2020