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In the 2002–2003 Regional Longitudinal Health Survey, the non-medical use of psychoactive pharmaceuticals by First Nations people in Canada (including codeine, morphine and opiates) ranked second, after marijuana.
The most recent First Nations Regional Longitudinal Health Survey, released in 2011, reported that addiction was the primary challenge (83%) to on-reserve community wellness—a greater challenge than both housing (71%) and employment (66%).

Canada is the second largest consumer of prescription opioids, according to the International Narcotics Control Board (2010).


Prescription drug abuse accounts for 48 per cent of Aboriginal people using addiction treatment services. Of these, 74 per cent use benzodiazepines and over 60 per cent are poly-prescription drug users.

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