These articles are researched using the best available evidence and are written in magazine style complete with statistics, interviews and sidebars, and are intended for people with only basic knowledge about mental health or substance use problems. These fact sheets cover a wide range of mental health and substance use issues from schizophrenia or stress to eating disorders or tobacco addiction. There are also population-specific articles for issues of particular relevance to seniors, children and youth, and ethnocultural groups, for example. Another dozen or so fact sheets deal with broader social issues, such as the relationship between mental health and substance use and housing, unemployment, workplaces, crises, or violence. The factsheet series also include articles on how to get help as well as how families and friends can support someone to get help.

Below is an alphabetical list of our fact sheet titles. To see them organized by topic, see our Understand More section.

There are many fact sheets that were translated into Chinese, Farsi (Persian), French, Korean, Punjabi, Spanish and Vietnamese by the BC Mental Health and Addiction Services Translation Project. The translation project was made possible thanks to the support of the Provincial Health Services Authority's (PHSA) Provincial Language Service and generous funding from the PHSA. To see them organized by language, see out Other Languages section.

A-B:

• Aboriginal Mental Health and Substance Use

• Addiction - see:

• Alcohol 

• Benzodiazepines

• Caffeine 

• Cannabis

• Cocaine

• Cross Cultural Mental Health and Addictions Issues

• Crystal Methamphetamine and Psychosis

• Dangerous Drug Combinations

• Dealing with Alcohol or Other Drug Overdose Situations

• Economic Costs of Mental Disorders and Problem Substance Use

• Ecstasy and other "club drugs"

• Finding Help for Alcohol and Other Drug Problems

• Hallucinogens

• Heroin

• Housing for People with Mental Disorders and Addictions

• Inhalants

• Medications

• Mental Disorders, Addictions and the Question of Violence

• Mental Disorders and Addictions in the Workplace

• Methamphetamine

• Personal Costs of Mental Disorders and Addictions

• Preventing Addictions

• Relapse Prevention

• Seniors' Mental Health and Substance Use Issues

• Steroids

• Stigma and Discrimination around Mental Disorders and Addiction

• Substance Use and Pregnancy

• Substance Use Problems

• Tobacco

• Treatment for Substance-Use Problems

• Understanding Substance Use

• Unemployment and Mental Health and Addictions

• Tobacco, Alcohol and Other Drugs

• Alcohol - see:

• Alcohol

• Cutting Back or Quitting Drinking

• Hosting a Teen Party: The Alcohol Question

• Safe Night Out

• The Case for Low-Risk Drinking Guidelines for BC

• Alternative Treatments for Mental Disorders

• Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia

• Answers to Your Questions About Getting Help

• Anxiety Disorders - see:

• Anxiety Disorders

• General Anxiety Disorder

• Social Anxiety Disorder

• Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Kids

• Back to School: Tips for Parents, Kids and Families

• Bipolar Disorder - see:
  

• Bipolar Disorder

• Bipolar Disorder: Effects on the family

• Bipolar Disorder: Electroconvulsive Therapy

• Bipolar Disorder: Medications

• Bipolar Disorder: Myths and Facts

• Bipolar Disorder: Preventing Risky Behaviours

• Bipolar Disorder: Types

• Bipolar Disorder: What can do I to prevent future episodes?

• Bipolar Disorder: What causes bipolar disorder?

• Bipolar Disorder: What does it feel like?

• Boys, and How We Can Reach Them

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C-D:

• Caffeine 

• Cannabis (Marijuana)- see:

• Cannabis

• Cutting Back or Quitting Cannabis

• Cannabis and Psychosis

• Medical Use of Cannabis

• Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Mental Health Issue

• Children, Youth and Mental Disorders

• see also: Kids and youth

• Cocaine

• Coping with Mental Health Crises and Emergencies

• Concurrent Disorders: Mental Disorders and Substance Use Problems

• Cross Cultural Mental Health and Addictions Issues

• Crystal Methamphetamine and Psychosis

• Dangerous Drug Combinations

• Dealing with Alcohol or Other Drug Overdose Situations

• Depression

• Discrimination - see: Stigma and Discrimination around Mental Disorders and Addiction

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E-G:

• Eating Disorders and Body Image

• Ecstasy and other "club drugs"

• Economic Costs of Mental Disorders and Problem Substance Use

• Emergencies - see Coping with Mental Health Crises and Emergencies

• Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

• For kids who might know people with psychosis

• For Teens: When Your Brother or Sister has Psychosis

• FInding Help for Mental Disorders

• Finding Help for Substance Use Problems

• General Anxiety Disorder

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H-M:

• Hallucinogens

• Harm Reduction

• Help and support - see:

• Finding  Help for Mental Disorders

• Finding Help for Substance Use Problems

• Answers to Your Questions About Getting Help

• Mixed Support Groups

• Picking the Support Group that's Right for You

• What Family and Friends can do to Help

• Help with Psychosis

• Heroin

• Housing for People with Mental Disorders and Addictions

• How to Help People Recovering from Psychosis

• Improving Mental Health

• Inhalants

• Kids and Mental Illness: What Every Parent should Know

• Kids and youth - see:

• Answers to Your Questions About Getting Help

• Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Kids

• Back to School: Tips for Parents, Kids and Families

• Boys, and How We Can Reach Them

• Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Mental Health Issue

• Children, Youth and Mental Disorders

• Eating Disorders and Body Image

• For kids who might know people with psychosis

• For Teens: When Your Brother or Sister Has Psychosis

• Kids and Mental Illness: What Every Parent should Know

• Youth and Drug Use

• What to Expect from Community Child & Youth Mental Health Services

• What to Expect from Your Child's School in Children's Mental Health

• What to Expect from Your Family Physician in Children's Mental Health

• When Your Brother or Sister is Sick With Psychosis

• Marijuana - see Cannabis

• Marketing Mental Health Literacy ... to Men

• Medical Use of Cannabis

• Medications

• Mental Disorders?

• Mental Disorders, Addictions and the Question of Violence

• Mental Disorders and Addictions in the Workplace

• Mental Health and New Mothers

• Methamphetamine - see:

• Methamphetamine

• Crystal Methamphetamine and Psychosis

• If You Think Your Teen is on Methamphetamine

• Meth 101

• Methamphetamine: Tips on Cutting Back or Quitting

• Mixed Support Groups

• Mood and Psychosis

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N-Q:

• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

• Panic Disorder

• Personal Costs of Mental Disorders and Addictions

• Personality Disorders

• Picking the Support Group that's Right for You

• Postpartum Depression

• Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

• Preventing Addictions

• Psychosis - see:

• Cannabis and Psychosis

• Crystal Methamphetamine and Psychosis

• For kids who might know people with psychosis

• For Teens: When Your Brother or Sister has Psychosis

• Help with Psychosis

• How to Help People Recovering from Psychosis

• Mental Health and New Mothers

• Mood and Psychosis

• Psychosis and Depression

• Symptoms of Psychosis & What to Do About Them

• What's Going On With Me? Signs & Symptoms of Psychosis

• When Your Brother or Sister is Sick with Psychosis

• Psychosis and Depression

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R-S:

• Recovery from Mental Disorders

• Relapse Prevention

• Safe Night Out

• Schizophrenia

• Seasonal Affective Disorder

• Seniors' Mental Health and Substance Use Issues

• Social Anxiety Disorder

• Steroids

• Stigma and Discrimination around Mental Disorders and Addiction

• Stress

• Substance Use and Pregnancy

• Substance Use Problems - see:

• Addiction

• Alcohol 

• Caffeine 

• Cannabis

• Cannabis and Psychosis

• Concurrent Disorders: Mental Disorders and Substance Use Problems

• Finding Help for Alcohol and Other Drug Problems
  

• Methamphetamine

• Tobacco

• Understanding Substance Use

• Youth and Drug Use

• Suicide: Following the Warning Signs

• Support - see: Help and support

• Symptoms of Psychosis & What to Do About Them

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T-Z:

• Tobacco - see:

• Tobacco

• Quitting Smoking

• Treatment for Substance-Use Problems

• Treatments for Mental Disorders

• Unemployment and Mental Health and Addictions

• Violence - see: Mental Disorders, Addictions and the Question of Violence

• What Family and Friends can do to Help

• Tobacco, Alcohol and Other Drugs

• What to Expect from Community Child & Youth Mental Health Services

• What to Expect from Your Child's School in Children's Mental Health

• What to Expect from Your Family Physician in Children's Mental Health

• What's Going On With Me? Signs & Symptoms of Psychosis

• When Your Brother or Sister is Sick with Psychosis

• Workplace - see: Mental Disorders and Addictions in the Workplace

• Youth - see: Kids and youth

• Youth and Drug Use

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