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"Canada's Drug Strategy".
"Health Canada is grateful to the Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission (AADAC), the Addictions Foundation of Manitoba (AFM) and the Addiction Research Foundation (ARF) Division of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health for their support of this project, and to Lorraine Adam and Roberta Coulter (AFM), Bob Hunter (AADAC) and Alan Ogborne (ARF) for their significant efforts as members of the project working committee. Thanks are also extended to Gillian Leigh, Marconi Campus, Nova Scotia Community College, for preparing the annotated bibliography and to Cam Wild and Garth Martin of ARF who wrote the sections on mandatory treatment and residential versus outpatient treatment, respectively. Finally, thanks are due Margo Hawley of the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA) for overseeing the search of the literature and Gary Roberts of CCSA for coordinating this project".
Issued also in French under title: Meilleures pratiques : alcoolisme et toxicomanie, traitement et réadaptation.
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Résumé
This report is one of two initiated by Health Canada in collaboration with the provinces and
territories to provide current baseline information concerning substance abuse treatment and
rehabilitation. The purpose of this report is to provide advice on “where we need to go” in
substance abuse treatment and rehabilitation in Canada. To complement this report, the other
report, Profile – Substance Abuse – Treatment and Rehabilitation in Canada, provides current
information on the scope and nature of substance abuse services at the federal, provincial,
territorial and local levels.
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