CBC's The Current featured the documentary :

With flood waters wreaking havoc across communities in Canada and the U.S., the immediate concern is to make sure people are safe and to limit damage. Communities typically know how to respond quickly to the physical clean-up, but are unprepared for the consequences. The toll the destruction takes on mental health includes spikes in depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide.

Gulliver, who studies disaster resiliency and recovery in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, volunteers in New Orleans providing mental health support to volunteers and victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster.

You can listen to the documentary on . Gulliver's comments begin at the 16:39 mark.

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Lexchin, has worked as an emergency physician at the since 1988. His research interests include: physician prescribing behaviour, pharmaceutical promotion and the drug approval process. He has been a consultant on pharmaceutical issues to the Ontario government, the federal Auditor General, the government of New Zealand, the Australian National Prescribing Service, and the .

The interview runs approximately nine minutes and is .

Lexchin was also interviewed by CBC's .

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Lexchin, has worked as an emergency physician at the since 1988. His research interests include: physician prescribing behaviour, pharmaceutical promotion and the drug approval process. He has been a consultant on pharmaceutical issues to the Ontario government, the federal Auditor General, the government of New Zealand, the Australian National Prescribing Service, and the World Health Organization.

ran in The Current's second segment, "Drug Store Wars." It starts at the 12-minute mark and runs for approximately 12 minutes.

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The segment runs approximately .

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