Submitted by Rodney Haring Indigenous communities demonstrate high rates of alcohol and substance abuse and suffer disproportionately from their effects on physical and emotional health (Legha & Novins, 2012). High rates of substance abuse have harmful consequences on both the individual and community, it is widely believed that few families remain unaffected, either directly or […]
Submitted by Michele Redeye, EMT, Director of EMS Operations – Seneca EMS Human beings should strive to make the world a better place than they found it. We hear about it almost daily, the opioid epidemic is here and it isn’t going away. The Seneca Nation is no exception to this and we ask ourselves, […]
Most of us do not have to think twice about this question. WE KNOW! Our whole life and thinking was centered in drugs in one form or another – the getting and using and finding ways and means to get more. We lived to use and used to live. Very simply, an addict is a […]