As Canadians, and as lovers of hockey and other contact sports, we hear a lot about concussions and other traumatic brain injuries. There have been calls for years to ban certain violent aspects of these sports for our younger players, but there is always that risk in hockey, football, soccer and others that someone could suffer a head injury. Now it seems that teenagers who have suffered a concussion or strong head injury, that they may be at a higher risk to abuse drugs in their teen years and in the future. The use of non-prescribed tranquillizers, opioids, cannabis, cocaine and crystal meth were two to four times higher among Ontario high school students who had experienced some sort of traumatic brain injury (also known as a TBI) than their classmates and friends who hadn’t suffered any such injury.… Read the rest »
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