by ccsadmin | Feb 1, 2020 | People First Media
Serious mental illnesses include diagnoses that typically involve losing touch with reality or experiencing delusion (referred to as psychosis) or diagnoses requiring high levels of care, either of which may require hospital treatment. Two of the most common severe...
by ccsadmin | Jan 28, 2020 | People First Media
The B.C. Schizophrenia Society focused on issues related to the psychiatric inpatient experience—along with the experiences of parents when their children are hospitalized—at its October 2019 annual general meeting. A panel discussion called “Inpatient Care for People...
by ccsadmin | Jan 27, 2020 | People First Media
Emerging legal developments may threaten patients’ access to the involuntary treatment that some patients need. This includes describing the challenge to the BC Mental Health Act made under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the most recent Ombudsperson’s Report that...
by ccsadmin | Jan 26, 2020 | People First Media
The psychiatric inpatient experience can be very difficult both for patients and their families. But a lack of acute psychiatric beds in British Columbia hospitals has also led to increasing concern. The word acute refers to an illness that quickly becomes very...
by ccsadmin | Jan 14, 2020 | People First Media
The province of British Columbia is reportedly using “every possible available tool” to curb opioid overdose deaths—and thousands of deaths have been averted since introducing several strategies. But what is happening to those many thousands of citizens who are...
by ccsadmin | Oct 30, 2019 | People First Media
AUDIO | The 2018 spring flooding in New Brunswick devastated communities along the Saint John River. Thousands of people were displaced from their homes during the flood event. And then spring flooding struck again in 2019. We actually don’t have any good...
