Alcohol-Drug Education Service

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Alcohol-Drug Education Service – leaders in the field of prevention through education.

Keeping kids safe is what it is all about. This site offers factual, research-based information to help parents
and teachers make it less likely that youth will turn to alcohol and other drugs for recreation or solutions to
their problems.

Drug Facts • alcohol • tobacco and other drugs

Prevention • protective factors • delaying first use • encouraging resiliency

Parents • what parents need to know • building family bonds • signs of use • talking to kids about drugs
• decision making • refusal skills • grad tips • connecting with community

Teachers • what teachers need to know • making a difference • how A-DES can help • teachers talking to
kids about drugs • developmental assets • building school connectivity

Videographer Ross Friesen (right) takes hand-held shots for a new anti-smoking DVD as moderator John Raven (back to camera) questions two participants at the Tsow-Ten-Le Lum Healing Centre on Vancouver Island.

Dave Denault (center) and StreetHope volunteers move a load of office equipment from A-DES’ Port Coquitlam headquarters upon the agency’s move to the PCRS Guildford Youth Resource Centre in Surrey

Appeasing the liquor industry, Health Canada has opened a loophole that will let alcoholic energy drinks be sold by liquor agencies across the country.

A-DES knows value of prevention; letter counters ‘Sun’ columnist
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New Newsletter Focuses on "Social" Drugs

A-DES explores new partnerships
Alcohol-Drug Education Service is pursuing a possible partnership with a major, Lower Mainland social-services provider to further the A-DES mission of “Helping Keep Kids Drug Free.”
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ALCOHOL-DRUG EDUCATION SERVICE
#203-2550 Shaughnessy Street
Port Coquitlam, BC V3C 3G2
Tel: 604 944-4155 • Fax: 604 944-4149

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