Resources

Port Alberni Community Action Team - Blueprint Report 2024

Reference List

Patients & Family – Accessing Mental Health & Substance Use Services

·       Island Health - Regional directory of all MHSU and health services across Vancouver Island including outreach, OAT, where to find harm reduction services, etc – Phone 8:30 to 4:30, 7 Days A Week –
1-888-885-8824

·        BC Wide  information and referral services for community and government programs – Dial or Text 211 or go to their Website: https://bc211.ca/

Is Addiction an Illness or Choice? — It’s Not As Simple As You Think!

·        Canadian Medical Association Policy Statement

·        Senate of Canada 1998 Report on Canada’s Drug Policy and History

·        World Health Organization – Challenge of Non-Medical Use of Opioids

·       Why Addiction is Disease – SAMHSA Paper provides MANY resources on substance illness being a disease (SAMHSA is an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)

·        SAMHSA - Treating Concurrent Disorders in Adults

Causes of Addiction

·      A.C.E. Study – Adverse Childhood Experience Study – Definitive study linking trauma to addiction and other adverse behaviours

·        Centre for Addiction & Mental Health CAMH – Addiction Overview

Stigma

·        Video – Ending The Stigma of Drug Use Improving Care in ER Depts

·        Video – Reducing Stigma and Saving Lives We All Play a R.O.L.E Langley BC

·      Online Course (Free) Understanding Stigma CAMH Centre for Addiction Mental Health, Canada

·         Beyond The Label – Group exercises on understanding Stigma CAMH 

Treatment Options

·        BC Centre On Substance Use Website

·        Canadian Medical Association – Guideline for Opioid Use Disorder

·        OATS – BC Centre on Substance Use Guide to Understanding OATS Treatment Option

·        Guidelines for Health Professionals, BC Centre on Substance Use (Families can use much of this info) – Treatment of Opioid use in BC

Harm Reduction

     ·        What Is Harm Reduction? - BC Community Guide on Harm Reduction

·        Towards The Heart - Naloxone

·        Brave App – Don’t Use Alone

·         LifeGuard App – Don’t Use Alone

·        NORS – National Overdose Response Services – Call and talk to a live person for 30 mins when you use alone.

·        BC Prov Health Officer Dr Bonnie Henry – Stopping The Harm – Recommendation to decriminalize Drugs in BC for personal use

·        Find out what's in the drug supply or arrange to get your drugs tested. Vancouver Island -  Main Site or Testing Results Page. Lower Mainland - Vancouver & Region 

Social Stabilization

·        The Importance of housing – CMHA Supportive Housing Review

Books

·        In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts; Gabor Mate, MD

·        Chasing the Scream; The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs: Johann Hari

·        The Globalization of Addiction: A Study in Poverty of Spirit; Bruce K Alexander

Other Tools and Resources for Families

·        BC Centre on Substance Use – Grief Handbook – (for people and family suffering the death of a loved one due to substance use)

·        BC Centre on Substance Use - Coping Hand Book Coping kit when dealing with addiction in your family

·        Government of Canada Resources Webpage

·        University of BC (UBC) – online course understanding substance illness and treatment

·        Learning Moments – Articles on all aspects of MHSU written in Lay Language, an initiative of the Port Alberni Community Action Team

·        Trauma-Informed Communities - When trauma impacts the entire community.

·        Mom's Stop The Harm - Holding Hope Resource Page

 

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