Who Answers

Calls to the website’s main number are answered by our placement specialists.

Drug Prevention & Education

Last updated on: Tuesday, 15 August 2023

Drug prevention and education in Canada is usually the first line of defense for drug and alcohol addiction prevention. Our goal is to help people make an informed decision about drugs and alcohol and understand the dangerous risks involved. In addition, drug prevention and education programs in Canada are effective in helping kids, teens, and young adults avoid substance use but educating parents is as important.

GET A CALL BACK

  • What You'll Learn

List of Drug Prevention & Education Programs by Province

Here is access to our entire drug prevention and education database. Please select a province. If you need help locating the right treatment for you, do not hesitate to contact one of our treatment specialists at 1-877-254-3348.

Province

Type of Service

Drug prevention and education are some of the most important steps in helping youth and adults understand the dangers of drugs and addiction and alcohol abuse. Education programs are set up in so many different ways and operate all throughout Canada in every province, city, and town through private organizations, provincially, and locally funded organizations. The purpose of drug education is to inform communities with current and up-to-date information about all the different types of drugs both illicit and legal, street, and prescription. There is so much information available about drug and alcohol addiction and the different types of drugs that it can be difficult to filter through all of it, and this is why education programs are so important to help spread the current information among communities within different cities across Canada.

Information on Drug Rehab

Drug prevention programs are designed to teach people how to stay away from drugs and how not to abuse alcohol. These programs are especially important for youth so as they can make smart decisions when it comes to drugs and alcohol, and not get caught up in peer pressure and learn how to say no. Teens face problems with drugs on sometimes a daily basis during their time as school and among friends, but drug prevention programs can give them valuable life skills and tools to say no and not get caught up in addiction. Drug education and prevention are an essential tool in the battle against drug and alcohol addiction, and has proven very successful in helping people not become addicted to drugs and alcohol.

Ask a Professional

  • What is drug education and prevention?

    Drug education and prevention are designed to provide informative strategies to prevent substance use and related harm among youth and adults. These comprehensive strategies are used to help individuals, schools, health organizations, and communities, among others.

  • Do drug rehab centers provide drug education and prevention?

    Yes, most drug rehab centers provide their clients with drug education and prevention. This information is critical to have during recovery as it helps to understand the harms created by drug and alcohol use. Drug education and prevention also help with avoiding situations where drug and alcohol use occurs.

  • Is drug education and prevention provided in schools?

    There are provincial and federal resources in Canada through the private and public sectors. There is no one size fits all for drug education and prevention. There are good programs and ones that are not so effective. It is the responsibility of parents or caregivers to provide current and accurate drug education and prevention to youth.

  • Want to know more?

    The questions from DrugRehab.ca’s “Ask a Professional” are answered by Nickolaus Hayes. If you need further clarification on any of the questions above or have any other questions you can contact him directly at N.hayes@drugrehab.ca.

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ARTICLE

{echo:get_author_info('title')}
MARCEL GEMME, DATS

AUTHOR

More Information

Marcel Gemme has been helping people struggling with addiction for over 19 years. He first started as an intake counselor for a drug rehabilitation center in 2000. During his 5 years as an intake counselor, he helped many addicts get the treatment they needed. With drug and alcohol problems constantly on the rise in the United States and Canada, he decided to use the Internet as a way to educate and help many more people in both those countries. This was 15 years ago. Since then, Marcel has built two of the largest websites in the U.S. and Canada which reach and help millions of people each year. He is an author and a leader in the field of drug and alcohol addiction. His main focus is threefold: education, prevention and rehabilitation. To this day, he still strives to be at the forefront of technology in order to help more and more people. He is a Licensed Drug and Alcohol Treatment Specialist graduate with Honours of Stratford Career Institute. Marcel has also received a certificate from Harvard for completing a course entitled The Opioid Crisis in America and a certificate from The University of Adelaide for completing a course entitled AddictionX: Managing Addiction: A Framework for Succesful Treatment.

GET A CALL FROM A COUNSELOR