Resources
The RASS Addiction Specialists are hard at work compiling current information specific to the categories below. They have carefully selected and screened the following links to help you in the meantime.
- Healthy Living Toolkits - Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre
mindcheck.ca - AADAC website for YOUTH:
www.aadac.com/21.asp - Youthinbc.com
- Sensible Drug Policy for Students:
http://not4me.org/ - Addiction Services For Youth Resources List:
resources list - Canadian drug website for YOUTH:
www.xperiment.ca - Non-profit mental health engagement program for YOUTH (CAN):
www.mindyourmind.ca - Excellent drug website for YOUTH (USA):
www.abovetheinfluence.com - Drug website for YOUTH (USA):
www.checkyourself.com - Drug website for YOUTH (USA):
www.thecoolspot.gov - National Institute of Drug Abuse (YOUTH, USA):
www.teens.drugabuse.gov - Website about issues facing YOUTH (USA):
www.facetheissue.com - Healthy living website for YOUTH (USA):
www.teencentral.net - YOUTH site on healthy living (UK):
www.thesite.org.uk
http://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/prg/cp/ythgng/index-eng.aspx
- Benzodiazephines
Anxious?
www.heretohelp.bc.ca/publications/factsheets/benzos (English)
www.heretohelp.bc.ca/sites/default/files/images/tchinese_benzos.pdf (Chinese) - Destigmatization of Substance Use Disorders:
www.ctv.ca bc_lawford_interview - Drug information website (USA):
www.streetdrugs.org - Drug information website (USA):
www.erowid.org - Drug FACT sheets (USA):
www.ncadistore.samhsa.gov/catalog/drugs.aspx - Drug FACT sheets (USA):
www.drugabuse.gov/infofacts/Infofaxindex.html - Marijuana website:
www.marijuana-info.org - Club drugs website:
www.clubdrugs.org - DXM (Dextromethorphan) website:
www.dxmstories.com - Ecstasy website:
www.ecstasydata.org - Meth website:
www.methproject.org - Meth website:
www.drugfree.org/meth360 - Meth website:
www.drugfree.org/Portal/DrugIssue/Meth/ads.html - Meth website:
www.methresources.dreamhosters.com/wp - Prescription drug website:
www.painfullyobvious.com - Excellent UK Alcohol website:
www.drinkiq.com - Drug Facts (AUS):
www.druginfo.adf.org.au - Alcohol website:
www.educalcool.qc.ca/en - Drinking facts:
www.drinkingfacts.ca - Albert and Health Services:
www.albertahealthservices.ca - CAMH FACT sheets:
www.camh.net/About_Addiction_Mental_Health/Drug_and_Addiction_Information/index.html - Health Canada drug FACT sheets:
www.nationalantidrugstrategy.gc.ca/parents/drugs-drogues/drugs-drogues.html - National Institute of Drug Abuse (USA):
www.nida.nih.gov - Drug website (USA):
www.drugfree.org - Alcohol and Other Drug Monitoring Project
- Tobacco website:
www.thetruth.com - Tobacco website:
www.americanlegacy.org - Tobacco website:
www.tobaccofreeu.org - Tobacco website:
www.worthit.org - Tobacco Website (AUS):
www.quitnow.info.au - Transition Program, Richmond/VCH: Quit Smoking - Tobacca Dependence Clinic
Application Form For Quit Smoking Group
- Free Gambling Block Software:
www.betstopper.ca - Problem Gambling website (BC):
www.knowdice.ca - Problem Gambling website (BC):
www.bcresponsiblegambling.ca/problem/youth.html - Chinese problem gambling website (BC):
www.problemgambling.successbc.ca
- Crisis help in Richmond, BC (CAN):
www.chimocrisis.com - Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse:
www.ccsa.ca - Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAN):
www.camh.net - Mental Health Information you can trust (CAN):
www.heretohelp.bc.ca - Centre for Addictions Research of BC (CAN):
www.carbc.ca
- BRAIN and drugs website:
www.jellinek.nl/brain/index.html - BRAIN and drugs website:
www.thebrain.mcgill.ca - BRAIN and drugs website:
www.drugabuse.gov/scienceofaddiction/index.html - NAMI on Dual Diagnosis:
www.nami.org - Ontario Federation of Community Mental Health and Addiction Programs:
ofcmhap.on.ca/?q=node - Mental Health and Addictions (BC):
www.heretohelp.bc.ca
- Parents Forever
www.parentsforever.ca - Parents regarding text & tech language
www.noslang.com/index.php - Excellent parents website (USA):
www.theantidrug.com - Parents website (USA):
www.drugfree.org/Parent - Parents website (USA):
www.timetotalk.org/ - Parents website on youth and drugs (USA):
www.safety1st.org - Parents website on smoking (USA):
www.realparentsrealanswers.com/ - Parents website from Health Canada:
www.nationalantidrugstrategy.gc.ca/parents/parents.html - Parents website on METH (CAN):
www.no2meth.ca/parents/default.aspx - Developmental Assets Website:
www.search-institute.org - HBO series on Addiction:
www.addictionaction.org
- Internet addiction recovery website (USA):
www.netaddiction.com - On-Line Gamers Anonymous website:
www.olganon.org - Internet Gaming story...
www.cbc.ca/video/#/News/Canada/BC/ID=1455964352 -
Addicted to Video Games?
http://www.richmondaddictions.ca/images/stories/video.pdf
- FAS support network of BC:
www.fetalalcohol.com - FASD connections. A Canadian support and information site:
www.fasdconnections.ca - The BC provincial strategic plan for FASD: (PDF)
www.mcf.gov.bc.ca/fasd/pdf/fasd_strategic_plan-final.pdf - The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration:
www.fascenter.samhsa.gov/aboutUs/aboutUs.cfm
- A Canadian based site on harm reduction:
www.canadianharmreduction.com - LEAP is an organization of individuals involved in law enforcement who advocate drug legalization:
www.leap.cc - The US based harm reduction coalition:
www.harmreduction.org - Vancouver Four Pillars Drug Strategy:
www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/fourpillars - Information on Vancouver's safe injection sites: (PDF)
www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/fourpillars/pdf/SIS_FAQs.pdf
- Aging in Canada:
www.agingincanada.ca/site.htm - American Society on Aging:
www.asaging.org/index.cfm - Gambling addiction and older adults:
www.agingincanada.ca/site.htm - Driving and Older Adults:
www.tsfbcaa.com/18.aspx - BC Seniors Guide to Services:
www.hls.gov.bc.ca/seniors/ - Public Health Agency - Seniors Division:
www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/seniors-aines/
- The LGBT Channel:
www.lgbthealthchannel.com/partydruguse - Crystal Meth Info in the LGBT Community:
www.thecentersd.org/methinfo.php
- Alcohol Reality Check:
www.alcoholreality.ca/ - How Much is Too Much? (Alcohol):
www.alcoholscreening.org/ - Drug Abuse Screening Test:
counsellingresource.com/quizzes/drug-abuse/ - Internet Addiction Test (IAT):
www.netaddiction.com/resources/internet_addiction_test.htm
- Aging, Medicines and Alcohol (Cambodian/Khmer) - for older adults who use alcohol and take prescription medications.
- Drugs, Alcohol and HIV/AIDS: A Consumer Guide (Cambodian/Khmer, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Vietnamese) - for individuals who abuse substances and are at increased risk of HIV transmission
- Good Mental Health is Ageless (Cambodian/Khmer) - for older adults who want to learn more about good mental health
- Helping Yourself Heal: A Recovering Man’s Guide to Coping With the Effects of Childhood Abuse (Chinese) and Helping Yourself Heal: A Recovering Woman’s Guide to Coping With Childhood Abuse Issues (Cambodian/Khmer) - for men and women in recovery who have childhood abuse issues.