[news] Study on Native Drug Users Brings Elder to Tears

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

by MARK HUME - Globe and Mail

A new public health study that looked at more than 500 young aboriginal drug users in two British Columbia cities produced such shocking data that people wept openly when it was first presented to a panel of elders...[T]he problem of sexual abuse in native communities has its roots in the **residential school system**, which created a generation of victims who in turn found victims of their own. She said it has created a cycle of abuse that is destroying young lives through violence, suicides and substance abuse.  


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