Canadian Women's Health Network (CWHN)

Motivational interviewing is a technique developed in the field of addictions, and has since been adapted for the treatment of eating disorders due to the similarity in some symptoms.

Originally published by CWHN in May 2006 prior to the tabling of the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology’s final report Out of the Shadows at Last: Transforming Mental Health, Mental Illness, and Addiction Services in Canada. Updated and revised report discusses why sex and gender matter in mental health and addictions and includes information and recommendations for the new Mental Health Commission of Canada.

Submitted to the Globe and Mail January 31, 2008 discussing misinformation published in the newspaer about  the HPV vaccine, Gardasil.

Gives basic information about Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), a common sexually transmitted infection (STI). Includes information about testing and treatment.

Online discussion with The Push to Prescribe (Women’s Press, 2009) editor Anne Rochon Ford and contributors Colleen Fuller and Abby Lippman on how drugs are produced, regulated, marketed, and used in ways that affect many aspects of everyday life, and the extent of these effects, and their special meaning for women.

Delves into the world of prescription drugs in Canada, and considers the impact on the health of women. From the inadequate testing of many drugs on women in clinical trials, to the sometimes questionable portrayal of women in illegal prescription drug advertising, Canadian drug policy has not always paid attention to how women and men are affected differently. 297pp, Paperback

Trace levels of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) are presently found in Canadian surface water and groundwater, and drinking water. Indeed, these compounds are starting to be acknowledged as pollutants that are persistent in our environment. Their ‘persistence’ is thought to derive not only from chemical properties that resist their breakdown in the environment, but from their continuous, and growing, release.

Highlights an organization started 16 years ago that offers shelter, therapy and resources to homeless women in downtown Montreal.