Drug and Organized Crime Awareness Service - "C" Division

Mandate
Programs, Services and Initiatives
Partnerships
Useful Links
Publications
Contact Us

Mandate

The mandate of the Drug and Organized Crime Awareness Service is to reduce the incidence of drug addiction by providing expertise on the various substances, harnessing resources and collaborating with other stakeholders in order to have a significant impact on the various problems related to drug abuse.

Programs, Services and Initiatives

Drugs and Social Phenomena

This tool provides addiction counsellors with updates on various substances and drug-related problems, including:
- marihuana;
- amphetamine base (methamphetamine and ecstasy).

Patch Program

The goal of this program is to send a direct message to parents, coaches and players that our common responsibility is to help young people achieve their full potential through a healthy lifestyle.

Two-Way Street

Aimed at parents, the objectives of the program are to inform and encourage communication with children about the legal consequences and substantive characteristics of drugs, what alternatives are available to parents who wish to intervene, and what types of resource agencies are available.

Straight Facts About Drugs and Drug Abuse - Health Canada

Conferences intended for addiction counsellors dealing with drugs, the consequences of drug abuse, and Canada’s Drug Strategy.

Drugs in the Workplace
Drugs and Sport (see also Drugs and Sport: The Score)
Aboriginal Shield Program

“C” Division Drug and Organized Crime Awareness Service Initiatives

Conference on drugs and social phenomena presented to various addiction counsellors
Substance abuse prevention and sponsorship program with the Midget AAA Hockey League
Substance abuse prevention and sponsorship program with the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League
Collaboration with the Quebec Elite Baseball League
Promoting awareness and commitment with Aboriginal communities
Awareness workshop with parents (Teen/parent communication)
Information sessions on drugs with a number of communities
Doping in sports conferences intended for young people in Quebec and Atlantic provinces
Development of prevention strategies with school boards
Collaboration with employee assistance programs (private and public sectors)
Collaboration with the universities of Montreal and Sherbrooke regarding an addiction counselling certificate
Collaboration with a number of Quebec hospitals as part of their training programs
Collaboration with alternative justice agencies (Mesures alternatives des Basses-Laurentides and Mesures alternatives des Vallées-du-Nord)
Collaboration with various treatment centres.

Partnerships - Drug and Organized Crime Awareness Service - "C" Division

Centres locaux de services communautaires (CLSC) (In French)
Régie régionale de la santé et des services sociaux (RRSSS)
Maison Jean Lapointe (In French)
Association des infirmières et infirmiers d’urgence du Québec (In French)
Drugs: help and referral
Université de Montréal
Université de Sherbrooke (In French)
Batshaw Youth and Family Centres
Association québécoise des programme d’aide aux employés (e-mail)
Centre québécois de lutte aux dépendances (CQLD) (In French)
Canadian Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (CCENDU) - Montréal
Association des intervenants en toxicomanie du Québec (AITQ) (In French)
Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES)
Institut national de la recherche scientifique (In French)
Institut Armand-Frappier
Sport-Québec (In French)
Sport Canada
Health Canada, Drug Analysis Service
Judicial expertise (laboratories) - Ministère de la Sécurité publique
Recherche et intervention sur les substances psychoactives - Québec (RISQ) (In French)
NAOMI(North American Opiate Medication Initiative)
Centre de recherche et d’aide pour narcomanes (CRAN)
Crime prevention issue tables in Laval, the Laurentians, Lanaudière area and Montreal
Laurentian Youth issue table.
Ligue de Baseball Élite du Québec (In French)
Quebec Major Junior Hockey League
Ligue de hockey Midget AAA (In French)
Hockey Québec (In French)

Publications

Crystal Meth, What You Need to know

Drug Analysis Report on Designer Drugs Seized in Quebec - October 2002 to April 2004.

Trucs et conseils pour une meilleure harmonie familiale (Maison Jean Lapointe) (In French)

Straight Talk About Marijuana (Health Canada)

Drugs and Sport: The Score

Drugs: Know the Facts, Cut your Risks - Centre québécois de lutte aux
dépendances

Other Articles - Features

Useful Links

Looking for help? You don’t know who to contact in your region? Check out the Drugs: help and referral service, subsidized by the ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec. Drugs: help and referral provides help and referral services that are free, bilingual, confidential and anonymous, to people who have problems with drugs, to their relatives and peers, and also to community workers.

Looking for reference material or information on the various forms of addiction? Log on to the following Web sites:

• ToxQuébec (in French)
• Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA)
• Parlonsdrogue.com
• www.drugwise.gc.ca

Contact Us

Montréal
Drug and Organized Crime Awareness Service
4225, Dorchester Blvd. W., Westmount (Qc) H3Z 1V5
Telephone: (514) 939-8408
Fax: (514) 283-2169

Québec
Drug and Organized Crime Awareness Service
925, 9th Street, Quebec (Qc) G2E 5W1
Telephone: (418) 648-3653
Fax: (418) 648-7325