{"id":21343,"date":"2018-10-05T13:13:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T18:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portage.hamakmarketingnumerique.com\/?page_id=21343"},"modified":"2025-12-02T15:19:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T20:19:35","slug":"part-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/special-report-cannabis\/part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Report Cannabis Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t\t\t\t\"banni\u00e8res\n\t

To fully understand the problem posed by the legalization of cannabis, one has to understand the underlying issue: addiction.<\/p>\n

When a person is addicted, he or she is completely subjugated by their addiction and experiences a total loss of control and freedom. Addicted individuals cannot stop themselves from consciously perpetuating unwanted behavior that adversely affects them and the people around them.<\/p>\n

Through the experiences and life stories recounted in our blog, we will try to understand addiction.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"12\"\n

\n\t\t\tThe Two Faces of Drug Addiction\t<\/h3>\n\t

Without my consent, I was personally and quickly propelled into the world of drug addiction. For over 15 years, I had been suffering from a panic disorder that splattered my days with anxiety attacks, making my life hellish. Nausea, vertigo, heart palpitations, abdominal pain, the feeling of dying… The symptoms resembled those of a heart attack, and I was forced to avoid any situation that could bring them on.<\/em><\/p>\n

I took the first pills because I wanted to live, be happy and flee from my mental pain. It’s only once I was addicted that I understood that while this pill allowed me to find relief and feel better, it was destroying my life. But it was too late: the drug had become the centre of my life, and the only solution to get out of my pain.<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead more\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n

\n\t\t\tThe Rat Park Study: Gaining a Better Understanding of Addiction\t<\/h3>\n\t

Bruce K. Alexander, a Canadian psychologist, led the Rat Park Study in 1978, thereby revolutionizing how addiction was understood. Just like us, rats are a social species, and they crave being in contact and communicating with their peers. And just like rats would, people isolated in a narrow, confined space would show little hesitation in using a narcotic substance freely supplied to them to counter boredom, loneliness, or more broadly, living conditions that are contrary to their well-being.<\/p>\n

Alexander and his team built a park big enough to house 16 to 20 male and female rats. It was set up like a play park, a mini rat paradise complete with play wheels and balls, food, and space for mating. Several theories based on the hypothesis that the environment plays a key role in addiction were tested using four groups of rats.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead more\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\"Cr\u00e9ation\n\t\t\t\t\"egaux\n

\n\t\t\tAre We All Equal in the Face of Addiction?\t<\/h3>\n\t

Making the bad decision to do drugs does not necessarily lead to addiction, but addiction definitely leads to making all the bad decisions.<\/p>\n

I always thought becoming a drug addict could only happen to others. I became one myself fairly late, at about 35 year-old, having never taken any drugs or alcohol in my life. In fact, I was terrified of all drugs, of their ability to rob people of their self-control. I was a very anxious person to begin with, so taking drugs and running the risk of becoming an addict was outright unthinkable. I genuinely thought I’d be forever safe.<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead more\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n

\n\t\t\tSpecial report\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\"banni\u00e8res\n

Part 1<\/h3>\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\"banni\u00e8res\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n

Part 3<\/a><\/h3>\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\"banni\u00e8res\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n

Part 2<\/a><\/h3>\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\"banni\u00e8res\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n

Part 4<\/a><\/h3>\t\n

\n\t\t\tAdolescent and Young Adult Programs (14-21)\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\"202208_Portage_0194\"\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n

Quebec – Laurentians<\/a><\/h4>

For youth from Western Quebec<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\"202208_Portage_0206-photoshop\"\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n

New Brunswick, Cassidy Lake<\/a><\/h4>

For youth from the Atlantic provinces<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\"20220912_Saint_Malachie_0247\"\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n

Quebec – Chaudi\u00e8re-Appalaches<\/a><\/h4>

For francophone youth from Eastern Quebec<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To fully understand the problem posed by the legalization of cannabis, one has to understand the underlying issue: addiction. When a person is addicted, he or she is completely subjugated by their addiction and experiences a total loss of control and freedom. Addicted individuals cannot stop themselves from consciously perpetuating unwanted behavior that adversely affects… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10157,"parent":21281,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-21343","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46739,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21343\/revisions\/46739"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}