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🚫 Drug use is dangerous and every overdose has the potential to cause a brain injury.
The Alberta Recovery Model recognizes that a system of care must do more than reverse an overdose. It must help prevent the next one.
🧠 Mental health and mental illness are NOT the same thing. In our June Mental Health and Addiction Brief, we explored why clarity matters.
Mental health changes affects everyone and is based on life events while mental illness affects ~20% of people and refers to diagnosable medical conditions such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depressive disorder.
🔎 This distinction is important because a clearer understanding helps ensure that the right supports are available at the right time to those who need them.
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Because better data ➡️ better care. #MentalHealth #EvidenceMatters
Alberta's Navigation Centers help make every door a door to recovery by bringing together essential services in one place.
They bring essential services together in one place, helping people experiencing homelessness or housing instability, including those with complex health, mental health and addiction challenges, access the care and support they need. People can also access life-saving addiction treatment the same day, at no cost.
Recovery Coaches inside Navigation Centres help clients access everything from housing and healthcare to mental health and addiction treatment.
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Better data ➡️ better care.
On October 24, 2026, Dr. Shannon Gravely, Principal Scientist at CoRE, presented at the National Commission on Correctional Health Care Conference in Las Vegas.
She highlighted how Alberta’s Therapeutic Living Units (TLUs) in correctional facilities can help people address mental health and addiction challenges, rebuild their lives and successfully reintegrate into their communities.
People like Robert are hailing the TLU program for its innovation in recovery treatment for people just like him.
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Therapeutic Living Units (TLUs) are helping break the cycle of addiction within Alberta's correctional system. Meet Robert who found the help he needed in a TLU. @Richard4Alberta @MikeEllisUCP
You can also read about Alex's TLU journey and his remarkable results: edmontonjournal.com/news/loc…
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The Alberta Recovery Model and TLUs are helping more people, like Robert and Alex, every day live better lives in recovery. Visit the CoRE website to read more recovery stories: recoveryexcellence.org/stori…
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The International Society of Addiction Medicine Congress was held from October 1 to 3, 2026 in the Netherlands.
As a result of Alberta’s innovations in addiction treatment, CoRE had several speaking opportunities:
🎤 Dr. Dan Devoe spoke to supervised consumption, service withdrawal, and low-barrier pharmacotherapy and explored where we go from here in helping people recover.
🎤 Dr. Stryder Zobell discussed the outcomes of a new research study on the rapid induction of Extended-release Buprenorphine and how a novel approach to using it is helping engage high risk population in recovery.
Better data ➡️ better care.
Learn more: recoveryexcellence.org
Robert is five years clean and sober and he credits Therapeutic Living Units (TLU) for making recovery possible and giving him his dignity back. TLUs are specialized, self-contained units within provincial correctional facilities that support individuals with addiction.
Read Robert’s full story and learn about his recovery journey on the CoREwebsite. recoveryexcellence.org/recov…
Watch the video below to hear Robert talk about why it is so important to reduce treatment wait times. youtu.be/_9hwMtnc32Y?si=vGiS…