Media
Press Releases
Expanding recovery support services in Medicine Hat - February 21 2025
Province opens first eating disorders recovery centre - February 6, 2025
CoRE Launches Guidance on Building Recovery Friendly Workplaces - January 21, 2025
Province more than doubling youth treatment beds - November 26, 2024
World Mental Health Day: Minister Williams - October 10, 2024
Province expanding recovery support in Red Deer - Septmeber 23, 2024
Building a recovery community with Métis Nation - August 16, 2024
Alberta opens another world-class recovery community - August 15, 2024
Breaking ground on Siksika’s recovery community - June 28, 2024
Refocusing health care: mental health and addiction - April 2, 2024
Upcoming engagement sessions on Recovery Alberta - April 2, 2024
More spaces at safe places for vulnerable women - March 19, 2024
Building a future of mental wellness - January 16, 2024
News Articles
Alcohol/FASD
New Canadian guidelines to help doctors address patient alcohol use and treatment
UCalgary Nursing students address on-campus alcohol consumption
Alberta clinic to help study how psilocybin may treat alcohol use disorder
'Acceptable risk': AHS to update website reflecting new federal alcohol guidelines
Alberta schools begin launching mental health pilot projects
Hangover headaches are the least of your worries. Scientists say drinking can be hard on the brain
Record number of people died from alcohol and drug use during the pandemic: StatsCan
CCSA Canada’s Guidance on Alcohol and Health
Drugs
Province more than doubling youth treatment beds
Creating awareness around substance use and recovery
National Addictions Awareness Week
Opioid-related deaths decline 32 per cent in Red Deer as of August
Province expanding recovery support in Red Deer
Building a recovery community with Métis Nation
Alberta opens another world-class recovery community
Ama’hna’bino “They’re Taking Me Home “ walk 2024
Why Alberta is focusing on treatment to solve its toxic drug crisis
Refocusing health care: mental health and addiction
Breaking ground on Siksika’s recovery community
Alberta opioid related deaths at an all-time high, Edmonton on track for deadliest year
Upcoming engagement sessions on Recovery Alberta
Ottawa rejects Alberta’s proposal for tracking ‘safer supply’ drugs
Poundmaker’s Lodge expanding addiction treatment service into Saskatchewan
Support group for mothers with substance abuse challenges launches in Red Deer
Nearly 1,700 Albertans died from drug-poisoning in 2023: Alberta Health
Gambling
More awareness needed on sports gambling influence on youth: advocates, researchers
300,000 Canadians at 'severe' or 'moderate' risk of gambling problems
Mental Health/Trauma/Domestic Violence
‘Unique in Alberta’: Whitecourt Family Violence Initiative group recognized by province
Alberta non-profit expands mental health services for youth and families across the province
Expanding Indigenous-led shelter and housing in Edmonton
World Mental Health Day: Minister Williams
Expanding homelessness supports in Lethbridge
More spaces at safe places for vulnerable women
Treaty 6 and 8 grand chiefs call for action on mental health crisis in Alberta
Alberta counsellors to become regulated under psychologists’ college in proposed changes
Newly opened drop-in and substance-free space a safe haven
Social Work Month March 2024
Provincial Money given to PR Regional Women’s Shelter for remediation
New mental health program for kids in Alberta schools launching this year
YWCA Lethbridge one step closer to doubling bed capacity of women's shelter
Bigstone Cree Nation declares state of local emergency due to mental health, addictions issues
Eating Disorders
Young women with eating disorders aren’t getting the help they need, study says
Deep brain stimulation could treat anorexia, Toronto study finds
Higher Rate of Alcohol-Related Problems Displayed by Women With Eating Disorders
Faster treatment for eating disorder patients aim of conference
Tobacco/Vaping
One in three: Vaping rates have doubled among Alberta's young people
Opinion: It's time for Alberta to enact strict vaping rules — finally
Alberta reports first case of severe vaping-related lung illness
Vaping causes 'havoc' in the lungs, study with mice finds
University of Alberta program provides nicotine for trauma and surgery patients
One puff of a cigarette is enough to make you addicted, study finds
Use of smoking cessation drug may put people at higher risk for cardiovascular events
NEW RESEARCH: Anti-smoking drug Champix joins the fight against alcoholism
Pregnant and smoking? Study finds nearly half who quit resumed soon after childbirth
Smoking Is The Most Prevalent Addiction Worldwide, With 22.5% Of People Lighting Up
Here’s the Best Way to Get Someone to Quit Smoking
E-Cigarettes Are Gateway to Substance Abuse and Addiction