We’ve been having a lot of funerals’: Cote First Nation opens Indigenous-led, on-reserve detox program – CTV News

Cote First Nation, Sask. – Cote First Nation unveiled a new on-reserve and Indigenous run detox program on Tuesday.

All staff members involved with the program have dealt with their own addictions struggles or have close family ties to the addictions crisis.

Shantel Cote, who has struggled with alcohol, is the programs manager in training and said she knows the hardships addictions can create.

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“I grew up in a community that was broken, and I saw my family and my friends all branch out to different types of addictions.”

Cote is now working under Clifford Bird, who launched Montreal Lake Cree Nation’s detox centre.