Most people who struggle with substance use are also carrying something else. Depression that won't lift. Anxiety that spikes at the worst moments. Trauma buried so deep it only surfaces through self-medication. When addiction and a psychiatric condition coexist, clinicians call it a concurrent disorder, and treating just the substance use leaves the other half untouched. That's why relapse rates stay so high when programs ignore what's happening beneath the addiction.
At the Canadian Centre for Addictions, our program was built to close that gap. Your care begins with a full psychiatric and medical evaluation conducted by our team of physicians, registered psychotherapists, and certified addiction counsellors. They map your substance use history, screen for co-occurring mental health conditions, assess your physical health, and build a treatment plan that targets everything at once. Validated screening instruments measure the severity of your psychological symptoms at intake, giving your care team a clinical baseline for every decision that follows.
