{"id":105710,"date":"2022-07-14T12:04:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T16:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=105710"},"modified":"2022-07-14T12:04:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T16:04:53","slug":"terrace-city-councillor-invites-discussion-about-new-drug-treatment-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/terrace-city-councillor-invites-discussion-about-new-drug-treatment-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrace city councillor invites discussion about new drug treatment centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Pacific Northwest Division of Family Practice are hoping to form a task force to develop plans for a new local detox and drug treatment centre. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After Terrace Coun. James Cordeiro introduced the idea to the Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine, the Division is hoping to develop a detailed business plan which outlines the costs and benefits of bringing a detox facility to the northwest.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Having unsuccessfully argued from the human cost standpoint before, Cordeiro is hoping that a financial argument will be more effective in advancing the proposal.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cordeiro says bringing this facility to the northwest would remove many roadblocks, such as transit and bed availability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Distance is also a large obstacle people face when trying to get the treatment they need. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although people in the northwest can apply to residential treatment centres in the southern mainland, they would have to relocate in order to attend, which can result in financial hardship.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The closest location to find treatment options is Prince George, with a wide range offered at the Nechako Centre during the day, as well as the men\u2019s-only long term residential treatment centre Baldy Hughes Therapeutic Community and Farm.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A meeting between the Pacific Northwest Division of Family Practice and the Regional District is tentatively planned for July 27 where they will discuss the benefits of having a facility in the northwest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hear the radio story featuring Coun. Cordeiro below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pacific Northwest Division of Family Practice are hoping to form a task force to develop plans for a new local detox and drug treatment centre. \u00a0 After Terrace Coun. James Cordeiro introduced the idea to the Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine, the Division is hoping to develop a detailed business plan which outlines the costs&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":105719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,223],"tags":[488,7684,16715,16714,2058,8378],"radio":[13054],"origine":[280,13049,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105710"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105847,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105710\/revisions\/105847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105710"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=105710"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=105710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}