Drug Cocktails

If you or a friend needs emergency help (like if someone is unconscious, having a seizure, difficulty breathing or chest pain), call 911 immediately.

Others you can contact include your local poison control centre (in British Columbia, call 604-682-5050 or 1-800-567-8911), speak to a nurse or pharmacist with BC HealthLink (call 811 from anywhere in BC) or a 24 hour crisis centre (in British Columbia call 604-872-3311, 1-866-661-3311, or 1-800-SUICIDE (1- 800-784-2433).

This website is not intended to be a substitute for your health care provider. If you need more information about medications or substances than this website provides, please contact a professional you trust – this could be your doctor, pharmacist, nurse, counselor or other health care professional. Make them aware of DrugCocktails.ca and your questions. Health care professionals are able to view additional details about the warnings provided on this website. Professionals are able to contact the DrugCocktails.ca project team for help if they are not able to answer your questions.

Please understand that the DrugCocktails.ca project team is unable to provide medical advice about your specific situation, medical condition or medications.

The Drug Cocktails website – “Facts for Youth about mixing Medicine, Booze and Street Drugs” (the “Site”) has been developed as a resource for youth and staff within Children’s & Women’s Health Centre of British Columbia Branch (C&W) for Provincial Health Services Authority and its branch agencies (PHSA)(C&W and PHSA together the “Societies”). There are support systems at the Societies which may not exist in other clinical settings and therefore adoption or use of this manual is not the responsibility of the Societies. Agencies other than the Societies should use Cocktails as a guideline for reference purposes only. The contents of this website were current at the time of development in July 2013. The Societies are not responsible for information that has changed after that time, whether incorporated into the Site or not.

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