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Addictions and substance abuse services

Addiction Counselling: Adult Outpatient

Provides personalized assessment, treatment and referral for adult clients with alcohol, other drug or gambling concerns.

Addiction Counselling: Youth Day Treatment

A community-based intensive program for young people who have been involved with drugs, alcohol or gambling activities in a harmful way.

Addiction Counselling: Youth Outpatient

Provides personalized assessment, treatment and referral for youth clients with alcohol, other drug or gambling concerns

Addiction Detoxification and Stabilization: Youth

This program is a 6- to 10-day social detoxification, which supports and helps to stabilize youth while they safely withdraw from alcohol, other drugs or gambling.

Addiction Detoxification: Adult

For people needing a safe and supportive environment during withdrawal from alcohol and other drugs.

Addiction Helpline

Telephone advice for adults and youth requiring addiction services.

Addiction Network

Provides enhanced consultation services to individuals with a history of substance abuse/behavioural addiction concurrent with a significant psychiatric and/or medical diagnosis.

Addiction Residential Treatment: Adult

Short-term residential addiction treatment centre.

Addiction Residential Treatment: Adult Long-term

Longterm Adult Residential Addiction Treatment

Addiction Residential Treatment: Adult Transitional Service

Transitional support for those who have completed treatment.

Addiction Services - Adolescent Outpatient

Addresses substance abuse and complications leading to, or arising from, substance abuse in adolescents with co-occurring psychiatric or physical conditions.

Addiction Services - Adult Outpatient

Addresses substance abuse and complications leading to or arising from substance abuse for adults with other psychiatric and/or physical conditions.

Addiction Services: Opioid Dependency Program

The Opioid Dependency Program provides methadone or suboxone maintenance treatment to people dependent on opioids and helps them access services they need to live healthy lives.

Addiction Services: Shelters

An overnight shelter for people under the influence of alcohol or other drugs.

Assessment and Treatment Services - Mental Health

Assessment, treatment, information, referral and follow-up of mental health problems for individuals of all ages and their families.

Chronic Disease Prevention Program

Community based programs that address preventable, non-communicable chronic diseases (cardiovascular, cancer, diabetes, respiratory, mental illness) that are influenced through: common risk factors (physical inactivity, unhealthy eating, substance use), determinants of health, and co-morbidity.

Concurrent Disorder Unit

The Concurrent Disorder Unit at the Centennial Centre for Mental Health and Brain Injury serves clients with a psychiatric disorder and an addictions disorder focusing on those individuals between 18 to 24 years of age.

Concurrent Disorders Program

A residential program specializing in the treatment of adults with chronic pain and addiction with anxiety and benzodiazepine dependence.

Edmonton Safe Streets

Educates the public and increases awareness about needle safety and provides safe alternatives for needle disposal.

FASD Directory and Resources

Providing up-to-date information regarding FASD services, resources, training, etc.

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Clinical Services

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Clinical Services - provides assessment and diagnosis for children and families affected by prenatal exposure to alcohol.

First Steps

This program is a community partnership offering advocacy, support and assistance to alcohol/drug affected women and their children.

Forensic Rehabilitation, Northern Alberta Forensic Psychiatry Services

Forensic Rehabilitation provides comprehensive interdisciplinary treatment of individuals during the rehabilitative phase of their mental illness.

Health Promotion - Campaigns for Healthy Living

Health promotion has developed a series of awareness campaigns that address a variety of topics promoting healthy lifestyles.

Health Promotion Program

The Health Promotion Program is based on the health promotion principles and strategies to improve the health of individuals, communities and organizations in our area.

Kick the Nic Teen Tobacco Cessation

10 session teen cessation program targeted to 15-19 year olds to assist in quitting tobacco usage.

Labs in the Community

Lab services are available in the community at Dynalife locations and some hospitals. Hospital labs do not take calls -they're walk in only. For Dynalife locations, appointments and other services, e.g. home collection, drug testing, patient instructions, etc., call the Dynalife Patient Booking Line.

Mental Health and Addictions Services

Provide counseling, treatment, information and referral to people of all ages who have mental health, psychosocial, and/or substance misuse/gambling concerns.

Occupational Therapy - Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Clinic

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Clinic.

P.A.R.T.Y Program

P.A.R.T.Y. Preventing Alcohol and Risk Related Trauma in Youth is a one day education session comprised or interactive and multimedia short presentations delivered by the RCMP, Victim Services, EMS and a P.A.R.T.Y. program facilitator.

PARTY Program

This is a 6 hour program to Grade 9 students with a focus on risk-related trauma, and injury prevention.

Prenatal Services

Initial contact to advise prospective mothers of services, one-on-one prenatal sessions, resource packages given, videos available on loan, prenatal follow-up.

Prevent Alcohol and Risk Related Trauma in Youth

The PARTY Program encourages grade nine youth to look at risk-taking and the use of alcohol, and examine the realities and impact of drinking and driving.

Prevention of Alcohol and Risk Related Trauma in Youth

The "Prevention of Alcohol and Risk Related Trauma in Youth" (P.A.R.T.Y.) program is a dynamic, reality based, injury prevention and health promotion program for Grade 9 students.

Public Health Tobacco Reduction Clean Air Policies

Information and assistance is provided to public areas for implementing clean air policies.

Public Health Tobacco Reduction Program

Services are provided to increase the public awareness of the hazards of using tobacco including smokeless tobacco i.e. spit tobacco, snuff, chew.

Focus areas are education, cessation counselling, resource provision, advocacy and healthy public policy.

QuitCore

QuitCore is a free group support program, led by trained professionals, that teaches you how to quit smoking and connects you with others who are also quitting.

Reduce My Risk Program

The Reduce My Risk Program educates nurses and staff working in surgical clinics and inpatient wards in smoking cessation skills to facilitate provision of such services to patients who smoke.

Regional Addictions Counseling Service

Individual assessment and treatment of co-occurring disorders ie. Alcohol, drugs and gambling.

Respiratory Research

Research of respiratory illness and smoking.

Safeworks Harm Reduction Program

Safeworks provides effective care, treatment and support to people with a history of drug use in the community.

Senior Services - Day Hospital

Senior Services - Day Hospital provides care to clients 65-years of age or older in a day hospital/community setting. Clients attend day hospital 1-2 days per week, and the hospital focuses on clients with depression and dementia.

Sexually Transmitted Disease Centre

The Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Centre provides FREE and CONFIDENTIAL testing, counselling and treatment for Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), HIV and Blood borne Pathogens (BBPs).

Smokers' Helpline

The Smokers' Helpline provides toll free telephone tobacco cessation counselling, support and information for all Albertans.

Stop Smoking Program

Helps students in Grades 7-12 to stop smoking.

Streetworks Needle Exchange

A free needle exchange service for injection drug users, who can exchange their used needles for clean ones to reduce harm to their health.

Substance Abuse in Later Life (SAILL)

A program assisting Seniors who face substance abuse/misuse issues.

Substance Use Prevention and Education Services

Alcohol, tobacco, other drugs and gambling education and prevention services.

Tobacco Control Services

Health Promotion staff work in partnership with AADAC continue to support the goal of "a province where the people , economy and environment are free from the harmful impacts of tobacco".

Tobacco Free Smoke Free Places

This program promotes tobacco free smoke free lifestyles.

Tobacco Reduction

Provides resources to people to reduce or eliminate their tobacco use.

Tobacco Reduction

Provides resources to people to reduce or eliminate their tobacco use.

Tobacco Reduction Clinic

Offers individual treatment plans, medication assessment and management and help with the next step if you are thinking about stopping smoking but are not completely ready.

Tobacco Reduction Coalition of South Eastern Alberta

Education/awareness on tobacco/smoking cessation, education and protection from second-hand smoke.

Tobacco Reduction Program - Community Health (Medicine Hat)

The goal of this program is to support tobacco reduction and cessation.

Tobacco Reduction Services

Supports health professionals and community organizations to develop and implement tobacco reduction programs, services and events.

Tobacco Reduction Unit

The Tobacco Reduction Unit is the provincial team responsible for the implementation of the Alberta Tobacco Reduction Strategy (ATRS) by providing evidence-informed leadership, guidance and support to collective efforts of community and provincial stakeholders to reduce tobacco use in Alberta.

albertaquits.ca

Free web-based smoking cessation program.