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Aboriginal Substance Abuse (DRUGS)
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Aboriginal Substance Abuse (DRUGS)
Definition: Drug Abuse - illegal or excessive drug use: deliberate use of an illegal drug or of too much of a perscribed drug.
History leading up to the issue -
Answer to essential question:
- Due to part of the Indian Act Clause.
- Alcohol came to be used as a gift, used as trade item at trading posts, and drinking alcohol often took form of binging.
- most problems that led to high rates of alcohol and substance abuse among Aboriginal people came from emotional and spiritual deprivation, violence, and poverty.
The Round Lake Treatment Centre is effective in treating substance abuse/ alcohol abuse patients with councelling, meetings, lectures, and exercises.
Planning
Statistics
Holistic approach? YES!
- The Round Lake program presents a holistic approach to healing through the medicine wheel and its balance of the physical, mental, spiritural and emotional aspects of lives to all cultures and nationalities.
- program is grounded in cultural teachings and practices facilitated by elders and staff.
- Passion: I have close family members who abuse drugs daily, so I would like to seek information regarding drug abuse for our loved ones and community.
- Social Issue: Substance Abuse (DRUGS)
- Social Programs: Round Lake Treatment Centre
Heal the past? YES!
Run by Aboriginals? YES!
- 1976 a group of four First Nations People from the Okanagan-Secwepemc communities felt that the biggest problem was the lack of an alcohol and drug treatment centre in the British Columbia.
- In 2012, Round Lake Treatment Centre celebrated its ten thousandth client.
- More people are seeking treatment for addictions for better futures.
- Round Lake Treatment Centre is run by the President of the program Norma Manual, and Vice President Richard Jackson Jr. Both have Aboriginal Ancestors or are Aboriginal.
- The Counsellors, Clients support workers and administrators and nurses are trained to experience.
Build new opportunities for the future? YES!
- Treatment centres offer help for those with addictions through counselling.
- gain skills/ substain jobs
- help future generations knowledge of substance abuse
- less likely to abuse drugs/ alcohol
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