Immigrant Patients: Need Treatment and Asian Clients

immigrant patients: But more programs will be offered in the coming months to deal with the use of opioids such as heroin, oxycodone and Percocet, said Dr, according to CTV. Rupinder Brar, an addiction specialist who works at the facility. The Roshni Clinic opened last spring in Surrey to provide services for South Asian clients addicted to alcohol and stimulants including amphetamine and cocaine. Thirty per cent of the population in Surrey is Punjabi speaking, she said. However, she said immigrant patients urgently need treatment and counselling from health-care providers who speak Punjabi or Hindi, and that's what Roshni - which means light - will offer them. There are physicians out there who've been there for a while providing services, and I'm sure these patients bring their friend or a doctor may have a translator but it would be nice to expand those services in a way that is culturally sensitive and provide therapy to the family as well. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.