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Poundmaker Healing Lodge expanding services to help people battle addiction

By Chris Stewart
Nov 08, 2016

For the first time, doctors will be on site.

Chris Stewart
APTN National News
For over 40 years, the Poundmaker Healing Lodge in Alberta has helped people battle addictions.

They done so through treatment immersed with First Nations traditions.

But now they are bringing doctors on site for the first time.

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