Addictions

This website provides easy-to-use educational materials about mental health problems and substance use. A-Z index covers variety of topics, including: depression, stress, social anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, problem gambling, steroids, etc.

Motherisk offers information on the impact of prescription and over the counter drugs, alcohol and other addictive substances on pregnancy and unborn children. The organization also provides counselling services to pregnant and breastfeeding women and their families.

These web pages provides access to information about various aspects of gambling, including gambling history,  popular myths related to gambling, signs of problem gambling and more.  The web site also lists available professional help options, self-help tools and other helpful resource. Some of the posted materials can be downloaded in PDF format.

The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is Canada's largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital, as well as one of the world's leading research centers in the area of addiction and mental health. The website provides information about a range of mental disorders and other associated topics. There is also a list of programs and services offered to people affected by mental illness or addiction.

This is a story of father's journey through his son addiction to drugs and through tentative steps toward recovery. His preoccupation with Nic became an addiction in itself, and the obsessive worry and stress took a tremendous toll. But as a journalist, he instinctively researched every avenue of treatment that might save his son and refused to give up on him.

This memoir of a young man’s addiction to methamphetamine tells a raw, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful tale of the road from relapse to recovery. The author spares no detail in telling the compelling, heartbreaking story of the mental and physical depths of drug addiction and of his alienation from  family, friends and ultimately from himself.

Authors explain that families may sometimes experience confusion about the diagnosed mental problems or psychiatric disorders and the co-existing addiction problems. They explain further how psychiatric diagnoses mimic addictive disorders, why chemical use exacerbates psychiatric problems, what various treatment approaches offer, and when a specialist intervention is needed.

Carr offers a startling new view of why we drink and how we can escape the addiction. Step by step, with devastating clarity and simplicity, he applies the Easyway™ method, dispelling all the illusions that surround the subject of drinking and what makes it almost impossible to imagine a life without alcohol. It is a landmark work which offers a simple and painless solution to anyone who wants to escape from dependency on alcohol without feeling deprived.

This handbook includes the most recent discoveries about drugs, including new information on the energy-drinks craze, prescription drugs such as OxyContin and Ambien, the date-rape drug GHB, and the unique effects of some drugs on the adolescent brain. Scientifically accurate and easy to read, it gives balanced and objective information on the most often used and abused drugs.