An evaluation of a Halifax program that prescribes alcohol to people who have struggled with homelessness and alcohol dependency is showing positive results — but it’s had a surprising side effect.
Participants were bored.
“They didn’t need to spend so much time during the day — like mental energy, physical energy — just trying to make money to purchase the alcohol,” Candis Lepage, a Dalhousie University medical student who conducted the evaluation, told CBC Radio’s Information Morning Nova Scotia.
“So their day wasn’t really revolving around sourcing it anymore, and that kind of creates a really big gap when you’ve been doing that for so long.”
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