Saskatchewan municipalities concerned about mental health and addiction
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“On average there is a nine- to 18-month wait for those services and they’re not available in our community.” The issue of mental health and addiction has only been amplified by a pandemic that forced people away from their social routines and into isolation.Story continues below advertisement “The isolation and the inability for the kids to participate as they used to. The issues with the seniors being isolated as well and not being able to have that connection and being for lack of a better terms shut-ins in their own homes,” said Behiel.“People are having trouble going to work. I mean, real people that we see, our neighbours and so on that we would think are just doing fine, they’re not.
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