News (Media Awareness Project) - CN BC: Addicts Need Better Services |
| Title: | CN BC: Addicts Need Better Services |
| Published On: | 2007-11-29 |
| Source: | Vancouver Sun (CN BC) |
| Fetched On: | 2008-08-16 12:02:27 |
ADDICTS NEED BETTER SERVICES
(CNS) - B.C. should fund more treatment facilities for people with
mental-health and drug problems, a coroner's jury looking into the
death of a cocaine addict recommended Wednesday evening.
David Kenneth Smelts, 45, died in 2006, after crashing his car on the
Trans-Canada Highway.
His sister Maureen Munro testified at a B.C. coroner's inquest
Wednesday that Smelts asked for help on many occasions, adding, "They
would talk to him for a while and give him a pamphlet."
Munro argued that people such as her brother should receive
mental-health treatment along with addiction counselling.
(CNS) - B.C. should fund more treatment facilities for people with
mental-health and drug problems, a coroner's jury looking into the
death of a cocaine addict recommended Wednesday evening.
David Kenneth Smelts, 45, died in 2006, after crashing his car on the
Trans-Canada Highway.
His sister Maureen Munro testified at a B.C. coroner's inquest
Wednesday that Smelts asked for help on many occasions, adding, "They
would talk to him for a while and give him a pamphlet."
Munro argued that people such as her brother should receive
mental-health treatment along with addiction counselling.
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