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CrossCurrents is a unique journal in Canada that explores issues in both addiction and mental health. It informs and educates front-line health professionals, as well as allied professionals, about the latest developments and issues in the addiction and mental health fields through professionally written and first-person stories, research summaries, news and feature articles. Read more of the overview about CrossCurrents .

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In the Spring 2008 issue:

• Focus: Cultural competence: Making a world of difference
  • Making a world of difference: Why cultural competence is a need, not a luxury
  • Culture-specific syndromes: It's all relative
  • "Hopefully in five years we can kiss ourselves goodbye": Why we still need ethno-specific mental health services
  • More than words: Health care interpreters play key role in quality care
  • Challenging borders and barriers: Cultural competence must embrace anti-oppression frameworks
  • Spirit or scalpel: Partnering western medicine with faith communities to bring healing
    
    
• Note from the Editor
  
  
• A View from CAMH
  
  
• Letter to the Editor
  
  
• News
  • Lace up, don't light up: Incorporating exercise into smoking cessation programs
  • Generation Rx: Taking action on teen prescription drug abuse
    
    
• Research Update
  • ER interventions for alcohol dependency / cognitive impairments in alcohol dependency / pregnancy and bipolar disorder relapse / brain abnormalities in borderline personality disorder / tantrums may signal psychiatric disorders / diagnostic criteria for generalized anxiety disorder / second-hand smoke linked to allergies
    
    
• Downloaded
  
  
• The Last Word
  • Should Aboriginal healing practices be integrated into conventional medical care?
    
    
• Conferences