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Improvements Made On
Drug Abuse Treatment In
Canada
■ Better training curriculum
– As an attempt to better drug abuse treatment in Canada, the
government has improved a training curriculum for training drug
addiction therapists. From the old curriculum that they had been using,
Canada adopted a patient oriented curriculum that was targeted to
providing patients with a personalized treatment method. This helped a
lot in healing the patient regardless of the level of addiction that they
were in. The curriculum also included new drugs in the market and
inhalants addiction. There are many people not only in Canada but
also around the world who are getting addicted with inhalants and
other substances. Such people can now find the right treatment from
the centers.
■ Increasing the number of personnel
– Another challenge that hampered the fight against drug addiction in
Canada is lack of adequate personnel to handle the growing number of
addicts. As result, the government in Canada developed a way of
correcting this by increasing the number of training institutions around
the country. This enabled Canada to produce a large number of drug
abuse therapists. The therapists were then taken to the newly opened
centers so that they can serve the gen