Addiction Services

Vision

The ACADIE-BATHURST Health Authority's Addiction Services Department focuses on the well-being of those affected, directly or indirectly, by substance abuse or gambling problems.

Mission

The mission of the Health Authority's Addiction Services Department is to substantially reduce substance abuse and gambling problems by developing, promoting, and ensuring teaching, prevention, and treatment strategies, in order to encourage individuals and the community to adopt a healthy lifestyle.

Mandate

To offer assessment, counseling, detoxification management, and outpatient consultation services (individual, group, and family counseling), as well as prevention and educational programs, according to the needs identified by the client, the family, and the interdisciplinary team.
To offer, in partnership with the community, prevention, promotion, teaching and community mobilization services with regard to the addiction process and a healthy lifestyle.
To act as a resource, in partnership with other caregivers and health care professionals.

Community Component

To promote and maintain the health of New Brunswickers, using various prevention strategies aimed at reducing alcohol, drug and gambling problems.

Youth Addiction Services Program

To promote healthy lifestyle habits and healthy behaviors among adolescents aged 12 to 19.
To improve relationships between adolescents, as well as relationships between adolescents and their families and community support systems.
To ensure adolescents have faster access to treatment by involving key organizations (e.g. schools) in direct contact with young people.
To enhance the problem-solving capacity of young people.
To help young people build self-esteem and self-confidence.

Adult Addiction Services Program

To promote healthy lifestyle habits and healthy behaviors among adults aged 19 and over.
To improve relationships between adults and their families and community support systems.
To offer individual, family and couple counseling to clients in order to equip them with the knowledge and tools needed for a successful recovery.
To refer clients to the services responsive to their needs.

Gambling Addiction Program

To promote healthy lifestyle habits and healthy behaviors among compulsive gamblers.
To offer individual, family and couple counseling to clients in order to equip them with the tools needed to successfully overcome their gambling problem.
To work in collaboration with community partners (e.g. employers) in order to make them aware of the harmful repercussions of gambling on individuals and society as a whole.

Addiction Services Centre Program
The Addiction Services Centre in Tracadie-Sheila provides inpatient detoxification and recovery services to people with alcohol or drug problems. The goal of treatment is cessation of alcohol and drug consumption, harm reduction, relapse prevention, and alcohol and drug teaching/awareness. The ten bed facility is staffed with nurses and attendants, who provide ongoing care and services; an interdisciplinary team also provides care and services during the week. The program is intended for people 12 years old and over.

Gambling
Information Sheets

Addiction Services Centre	Community Outpatient Services
400 Des Hospitalières Street P.O. 3180, Main Station Tracadie-Sheila, N.B. E1X 1G5 Tel.: 506-394-3615 or 1-888-434-9855 Fax: 506-394-3626 plebreton@reg6.health.nb.ca	400 Des Hospitalières Street P.O. 3180, Main Station Tracadie-Sheila, N.B. E1X 1G5 Tel.: 506-394-3615 or 1-888-434-9855 Fax: 506-394-3626 plebreton@reg6.health.nb.ca
	350 St.George Street Bathurst, N.B. E2A 1B9 Tel.: 506-547-2086 Fax: 506-547-7415

1-800-461-1234 (Gamblers Information Hotline)