LCBO sales top $4.7 billion, a record year for sales and government 'dividend'

TORONTO (CP) — The Liquor Control Board of Ontario is reporting another record year for sales and the money it turns over to the provincial government.
Figures released by the board today show net sales of $4.710 billion for 2011-12, up $218 million or 4.9 per cent over 2010-11.
The board transferred a record $1.63 billion dividend to the Ontario government, $80 million or 5.2 per cent more than in 2010-11.
Net income rose $98 million to $1.658 billion, up 6.3 per cent. More...

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The 'stay sober' drug that could stop alcohol making you feel drunk

MailOnline.com – Doctors are testing a drug that could stop alcohol making people drunk.
The researchers believe iomazenil, taken before drinking, might negate some of alcohol’s effects on the brain.
Tests in a driving simulator will determine whether the drug makes volunteer drinkers safer behind the wheel after imbibing. More...

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Man With ‘Golden Voice’ Says Fame Was ‘Too Much’

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) - Remember Ted Williams, the homeless man with the huge booming voice captured on a YouTube video last year?
Williams says he’s clean and sober after his ascent to superstardom when that video went viral. Williams says the attention he received was too much, too soon.
“It was a little bit too fast too soon,” Williams told WCCO Radio’s John Hines. “I didn’t know which way I was going, I was being pulled here, I was being pulled there, it was like come be on our station, no don’t go on there. It was too much for me after 17 years of being homeless, hungry, drug addicted and all of that … it was just too fast.” More...

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A father’s fight for war-damaged son
‘Kidnapping’ gets son out of CFB Petawawa, into treatment

By Chris Cobb, The Ottawa Citizen — After three years, Greg Woolvett finally lost patience with the way his war-damaged son Jonathan was being treated at Canadian Forces Base Petawawa.
So he kidnapped him.
It happened May 1, barely a week after Jonathan, 30-year-old Afghanistan war veteran, had been released from the General Hospital in Ottawa, where he’d been taken following his second suicide attempt.
“The military was told precisely (by doctors) that Jon couldn’t be left alone and had to be under constant supervision,” Woolvett says. “They took him home and left him and he relapsed immediately.” More...

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Are you a Facebook addict? Take the doctor-designed test

| Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press

Globe and Mail -- This is your brain on Facebook: You can’t stop thinking about uploading the latest photos of yourself and your compulsion to hit the “like” button is interfering with your work.
It may sound laughable, but psychologists at the
University of Bergen in Norway have come up with six questions designed to detect full-blown Facebook addiction.

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Herbal Extract May Curb Binge Drinking

Medical News Today – An extract of the Chinese herb kudzu dramatically reduces drinking and may be useful in the treatment of alcoholism and curbing binge drinking, according to a new study by McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School researchers.
"Our study is further evidence that components found in kudzu root can reduce alcohol consumption and do so without adverse side
effects," said David Penetar, PhD, of the Behavioral Psychopharmacology Research Laboratory at McLean Hospital, and the lead author of the study. "Further research is needed, but this botanical medication may lead to additional methods to treat alcohol abuse and dependence." More...

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Crackdown on 'No. 1 drug'
Ontario gets strict with OxyContin prescriptions

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Toronto Sun - Tired of the deaths, crime, duplicity and misery, the ministry of health will soon install strict new guidelines in how the "highly addictive" painkiller OxyContin is both prescribed and dispensed, the Sun has learned.
With a new multi-layered strategy which includes modern Internet watchdog technology, the Ontario government is about to declare war on those behind one of this province's dirtiest little secrets.
"There will be some significant changes taking place," says Helen Stevenson, assistant deputy minister and executive officer on Ontario's Public Drug Program.
"The letters from families who lost a child are heartbreaking. We have done a thorough look and this is, most definitely, an increasing and substantial public safety problem."
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