welcome to fgta
From Grief to Action is here for you if your son or daughter has, or might have, an addictive disorder. Lift your spirits with practical information and sympathetic suggestions right here, right now. (We know, unfortunately, that some of your urgent needs cannot be met until action is taken in a number of areas we describe here, in "Public Policy Directions 2012.")
Are you in crisis now?
- Downloading our Coping Kit (see the button at left) enables you to learn from parents who have rebounded from being literally "at wits' end."
- Parents Forever is the Greater Vancouver support group especially for you. Here's more.
- Treatment for your child may be quickly available. The Crossing is publicly funded for many BC residents and may have space in its effective long-term residential program.
Not in crisis but needing reliable information?
- Learn about B.C. treatment centres and support groups, listed here by REGION and regularly updated.
- Choose drug and self-help documents and links, by CATEGORY.
FGTA is a proud member of the Community Action Alliance on Mental Health and Substance Use. Follow our News items to learn about recent grants and other capacity-building activities.
Ready to give two minutes' help?
Families and Friends for Drug Law Reform has posted its Global Families' Declaration for you to sign. Please join us in endorsing the declaration.
events
news
- Study finds youth living in Downtown Eastside twice as likely to start injecting drugs June 3, 2013
- Use Of Stimulant Medication In Childhood Not Associated With Increased Risk Of Substance Use Disorders In Adulthood, Study Suggests May 31, 2013
- Quitting Meth Addiction Less Successful In Teen Girls Than Boys May 16, 2013
- Students turning to "study drug" Adderall via the black market May 15, 2013
- Adolescents More Vulnerable To Use And Abuse Of New Designer Drug "Bath Salts" May 14, 2013
- What Is Synthetic Marijuana and Why Is It More Dangerous Than the Real Thing? April 23, 2013
- FDA has done what Health Canada did not: controls required on generic oxycontin April 17, 2013
- Comox drug strategy's ingenious scholarship concept March 28, 2013
- Canada addresses prescription drug abuse with ten-year strategy March 22, 2013
- Canada addresses prescription drug abuse with ten-year strategy March 22, 2013
- Mid-Island treatment centre for men kept open with Foundation help March 20, 2013
- Fentanyl overdose death underlines need for attitude change to addiction March 18, 2013
- Tapping "recovery heroes" an emerging idea in addiction studies March 11, 2013
- Addiction and pregnancy just one research topic funded by IMPART scholarships February 28, 2013
- Incoming grad scholarships available for addiction studies this fall February 28, 2013
- Health Ministry Seeks Family Input on Short-Stay Treatment Experience February 27, 2013
- Tax time -- there's help for addiction-disabled persons receiving a pension February 26, 2013
- UVic seeking participants in study of party drugs February 20, 2013
- Meth Recovery May Need "Chronic Disease" Treatment February 15, 2013
- Large Study Shows Substance Abuse Rates Higher in Teenagers With ADHD February 13, 2013
- Thwarted by the Methadone Program? January 29, 2013
- Drug overdoses top AIDS as main killer of homeless Americans January 14, 2013
- Disabilities group asks for your survey input about its pension fact sheets January 10, 2013
- Some B.C. youth may consult with psychiatrists by teleconference December 28, 2012
- Women-only Recovery Experiment: Did It Work or Not? December 19, 2012
- 8 OD deaths in private recovery houses - CTV probe December 10, 2012
- Worries grow over mandatory minimum sentences for drug offences November 15, 2012
- First Nations leader calls methadone "a bad drug." November 15, 2012
- Economic scope of addictions given hard figures October 11, 2012
- New report connects international aid for drug enforcement to gross human rights violations June 25, 2012
- Province newspaper opens window on St. Paul's Hospital drug psychosis burden June 25, 2012
- "Stop the Violence" taking next step in Uruguay June 23, 2012
- Funding awarded to 31 groups for action on addiction June 14, 2012
- 16-year-olds at greatest risk for misusing prescription drugs May 11, 2012
- What became of B.C.'s ayahuasca experiment? May 10, 2012
- Teens facing addiction and mental illness need services that treat both May 10, 2012
- Cause or effect of depression in teens? Meth and Ecstasy study suggests "cause." May 8, 2012
- Brain imaging study de-links ADHD and addiction risk April 30, 2012
- Manitoba expands "drug court" model to "mental health court" April 17, 2012
- Appeal process changed to the disadvantage of those denied a disability pension November 1, 2011
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quick links
- crisis stages not sure where to start?
- find a support group parent support groups
- resource library useful documents & links
- read others' stories journals & stories