The mobile treatment program is held at a camp eight kilometres from Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, with a view of the Arctic Ocean. (Kate Kyle/CBC)Hogaluk participated in a 28-day land-based addictions treatment program at a camp outside her community of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, in 2017. It's the first residential addictions treatment program run in the territory in decades; most people are sent South for treatment. The Connections program, run by the hamlet's department of healthy living, ran again this past spring and fall. Nellie Hogaluk, right, with her aunt, Kathleen Hogaluk, in August 2017 before they started the residential treatment program outside Cambridge Bay.

Source: CBC News November 25, 2018 12:00 UTC