EHN Canada already represents excellence in the addiction treatment industry, and now we’re getting noticed for entrepreneurial innovation and skill. Our CEO, Joe Manget, was recognized on behalf of EHN Canada by EY with their Entrepreneur Of The Year Award for Health and Life Sciences. After a lengthy process of nomination, interviews and adjudication, … Read more
Opinion by EHN Staff Written by Hillary Webster, an employee at Bellwood Health Services. This week is National Addiction Awareness Week. According to the Canadian Centre for Substance Use and Addiction, this year’s theme is “The Stigma Ends With Me.” As a society, we’ve been trying to address stigma in addiction and mental health for … Read more
Opinion by EHN Staff For a supposedly taboo topic, addiction has been getting an awful lot of media attention lately. Maybe it’s the fact that opioid addiction has reached crisis levels such that the Canadian and US governments have had to severely regulate painkiller prescriptions, or that Canadians are dying of fentanyl overdose at an … Read more
Opinion by EHN Guest Writer In celebration of Bellwood’s 35th anniversary. Paul Dilworth is a Toronto-based social worker with a private practice focusing on addiction. Paul attended Donwood, Dr. Bell’s publicly-funded addiction treatment facility, and today refers his clients to Bellwood for treatment. He has been in recovery for 26 years. I have been a … Read more
Staff Interview by EHN Writer In celebration of Bellwood’s 35th anniversary. Wendy Cope never intended to be an addiction counsellor. With her father suffering from alcohol addiction, Wendy had a dysfunctional childhood. Wendy recalls living in constant fear of her father’s reaction to anything she said or did. She remembers tense, silent dinner times and … Read more
COVID-19 should not prevent someone from being able to receive life-saving addiction and mental health treatment. Rest assured that we are taking every step possible to protect our current patient population from contracting the infection.
Our facilities have policies and protocols in place to protect patients, including screening new patients, limiting visitors, and moving aftercare groups to online meetings.
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