23 Replies to “Sask Tops All Regions In Substance Abuse: Experts Puzzled”

  1. Quick, let’s build some curling rinks. The basketball courts don’t seem to be working at the centre on the urinalverse.

  2. Oh, man – that’s absolutely beautiful! The photoshopped pachyderm, not the situation.
    The situation is the fault of the ‘white man’, who provides both the means and opportunity to engage in this devestaing practise. The cure is simple: abolish the reserve system and Indian Affairs. Shut off the money and treat the ‘natives’ like any other human beings, equal with no regard for race, religion or creed.

  3. If you take that “other nation” of peoples out of the equation, The West will have the lowest rates of substance abuse in Canada.
    Great post Kate.
    Demos the on-going denial and lunacy in politically correct Canada. That has to lead to bad and redundant decision making and planning. What is the cost of that!

  5. Maybe it’s the long cold winters and great pogy benefits for seasonal workers…nothing else to do on off time but get FXXked up??
    Could also be why the provinces most popular indoor and spectator sport is wife beating.
    BTW Kate is that elephant sucking up a line with his trunk?…Is that the Calvert home?

  6. He says they will be studying things now like the availability of treatment centres and the availability of the drugs and alcohol.
    Not the availibility of welfare, or other free money?
    The devil finds time for idle hands.

  7. This doesn’t really come as that big of a surprise. Treatment options in this province are a joke, and people with addiction issues tend to be just swept to the wayside.
    There also isn’t much to do for some youth in this province aside from altering your state of mind. Some kids just don’t like playing hockey or basketball or reading books to seniors.

  8. Did they count the unhealthy commercial drugs and alcohol the same as the healthy traditional aboriginal drugs and alcohol?

  10. I expect that there will be new funding for “Certificates in Drug and Alcohol Counseling” offered through the University of Regina (or Saskatchewan). Prospective students will be recruited, may or may not attend class, may or may not produce any creditable work, will likely receive a certificate anyway, will all be hired in an attempt to address the problem, will contribute nothing to addressing it, and may or may not themselves be in need of drug and alcohol counseling. We will read this story again and will repeat the same failed approaches to the problem.

  12. This brings to mind the addiction center that shut down for three weeks so the staff could go on a Carribean cruise(on our coin). They threw everyone out and said try again when we get back. Wait a minute,it may have been a Manitoba unit. Anyways,the progressive solution is to study the problem longer,and avoid the middle of the room,for some inexplicable reason you cannot go there.

  13. Uh, Kate…? The experts are on the phone and they saw your post…..and they’re wondering if you’re trying to insinuate something….?
    These damned natives bitch and moan about how whitey is killing them with drugs and booze. They are killing themselves with that crap. We are killing them with welfare.

  14. Dr Cairney, co-author of the report, is quoted as follows:
    “He says they will be studying things now like the availability of treatment centres and the availability of the drugs and alcohol”.
    Wow! Is this guy ever on top of things! How is that Saskatchewan gets all the really, really smart people?

  15. The survey shows that 14% of Saskatchewan’s population abuse alcohol and/or drugs.
    The census shows that 14% of Saskatchewan’s population is native. (At least it was in 2001)……………

  16. and here I thought the province of toronto had the BIGEST drug abuse problem in Kanuckistan!!!!

  17. Wouldn’t you be a little funny if you lived in a place with 8 months of winter and 4 months of mosquitoes?

  18. 8 months of winter and 4 months of mosquitoes and you wonder why about a drug problem?

  20. We can outdrink any province in the country, and now the stats back it up. Take that, Newfoundland.
    Also, unless I actually take the time to have a gander at the methodology, I’m going out on a limb here and saying that we are within the margin of error. In other words, if the average is 11% and we are at 14%, we are hovering around average.

  21. Wow. That’s some find examples of ignorance and racism there. I’ve never been so proud to be from Saskatchewan.
    …
    Seriously, saying “these damned natives” isn’t the way to encourage understanding between peoples. What exactly are you advocating, when you say “shut off the money”? Forcibly moving indians off reserves and into the cities, then leaving them to find jobs or starve (and we all know there’s no hiring bias against natives!)? Just cutting them off and leaving them to starve on the reserve, foreclosing on the land if they can’t farm it and pay their taxes? No more funding to reserves means we get to actually BE a third world country, with starving children dying within our borders. You think that will make drug abuse go DOWN? Or are you simply suggesting that all natives be rounded up into concentration camps and systematically executed, thus removing the problem?
    This is not a problem with an easy solution. Changes of any kind will HAVE to be gradual, and will cost money to implement, whether we like it or not. The solution lies in promoting understanding and awareness, not painting an entire people with a stereotype and writing them off as a lost cause. I could just as easily say “Goddamned poor people, costing me money with their universal health care!” or “Damned farmers, costing me money with their government subsidization!” This is Canada. We take care of our own, or at least try to.
    Mind you, this is all based on the fallacy that the drug/alcohol abuse problem is entirely limited to the native community. Anyone who has spent a part of their teenage years in Rural Saskatchewan knows that is total BS. Alcohol abuse among teenagers in rural communities is out of control, whether they are white or native. Check a few more studies before you shoot off your mouths about “those damned indians”, ok?
    We have both the will and the compassion as Canadians to solve the problems facing native communities, both urban and rural. It can be done, so long as we don’t forget who we are. We don’t need to adopt American-style capitalism and institutionalized racism into our politics, thank you very much.

  22. To the best of my knowledge, I did not abuse alcohol growing up in a rural area…..but then again my memory is a bit fuzzy about those years.

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