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Other stories on crystal meth
CBC Manitoba, March 18, 2005
More teen girls using crystal meth: expert

CBC News, March 1, 2005
Ontario police make crystal meth bust

CBC Saskatchewan, February 15, 2005
MLA's daughter survives crystal meth nightmare

CBC Calgary, September 14, 2004
Crystal meth addicts starving on streets

CBC News, November 28, 2004
Experts warn crystal meth problem spreading east

CBC Nova Scotia, November 18, 2004
Police fear growing crystal meth problem

Government-sponsored crystal meth strategies
Crystal Meth and Other Amphetamines: an Integrated B.C. Strategy - released August 2004 by B.C. Ministry of Health Services, Mental Health and Addictions (pdf file)

A Community Stakeholder View of Crystal Meth in Edmonton - released February 2004 for the Social Development Working Group of the Safer Cities Advisory Committee, Edmonton (pdf file)

A Strategic Plan for Crystal Meth and Other Amphetamines in Saskatchewan - released February 2005 by Saskatchewan Health

Canadian conferences on methamphetamine use
Western Canadian Summit on Methamphetamine - held November 15-17, 2004 in Vancouver, sponsored by Vancouver Coastal Health

Alberta Workshop on Methamphetamine, an Environmental Scan - held September 13-14, 2004, in Red Deer

Methamphetamine Environmental Scan Summit - held November 28, 2002, by Canadian Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use, Vancouver (pdf file)

Support for overcoming a methamphetamine addiction
Crystal Recovery - created by a college instructor in an Addictions Worker Program in B.C., after his experience with meth addiction as an addiction counsellor

Crystal meth Anonymous - a support and recovery group similar to Alcoholics Anonymous, with listings for meetings in Vancouver and Edmonton

Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse - searchable database of treatment services in Canada

Phoenix Centre in Kamloops, B.C. - home of Meth Kickers, meth treatment program for youth featured on the fifth estate

Provincial addiction treatment referral lines
Yukon Alcohol and Drug Services
(867) 667-5777

North West Territories Department of Health and Social Services Authorities

Nunavut Department of Health and Social Services
867-979-7670, Addiction Services

B.C. Alcohol and Drug Information and Referral Service
(604) 660-9382 or 1-800-663-1441

Alberta Alchohol and Drug Abuse Commission, help line
1-866-332-2322

Saskatchewan Directory of Alcohol and Drug Recovery Services

Addictions Foundation of Manitoba
(204) 944-6200

The Ontario Drug and Alcohol Registry of Treatment
(519) 439-0174 or 1-800-565-8603

Quebec Drug Help and Referral
(514) 527-2626 or 1-800-265-2626

New Brunswick Department of Health and Wellness Addiction Services

Nova Scotia Addiction Prevention & Treatment Services
(902) 424-5623

Prince Edward Island Addiction Services
1-888-299-8399

Newfoundland and Labrador Addictions Services

Crystal meth and the gay community
A February 2005 press release from the New York City Department of Health
and Mental Hygiene

Crosscurrents (Winter 2004/05 Edition) - from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Crystal Place - A first-person account of a gay man's crystal meth use from Vancouver’s Xtra! West

Fact sheet from the Canadian Aids Society

Tweaker.org - created by The Stonewall Project, in San Francisco

Life or Meth - London, U.K. based resource for gay men globally

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