Resources
If you need help now — and where to turn next.
Every number here is a public, verified crisis or health-information line — never a treatment-facility intake number. Call any of them just to talk; you never have to be sure it's "serious enough," and you never have to sort out which condition is calling.
Crisis lines
988 Suicide Crisis Helpline
24/7
Call or text 988 — free, anywhere in Canada. You don't have to sort out which crisis it is first; 988 takes the whole person, both conditions included.
ConnexOntario — mental-health & addiction helpline
24/7
Free, confidential information and referral for mental health and substance use in Ontario — one line that takes both conditions in the same call, no doctor's referral needed.
The dual-recovery rooms, and the words that open the right door
Peer fellowships written for people carrying both conditions, plus the one page of ours worth bookmarking. Meetings are free; every fellowship link goes to the organization's own official site.
Dual Recovery Anonymous (DRA) — official site
Meetings in person and online
A twelve-step fellowship written for people carrying both a substance problem and a psychiatric or emotional illness. Explicitly medication-affirming. The official site is the only current source for meetings.
Dual Diagnosis Anonymous (DDA) — official site
A peer fellowship built on the traditional twelve steps plus a further five, focused on accepting and managing both illnesses together. Medication is welcome without argument.
Emotions Anonymous — official site
A twelve-step fellowship for the emotional and mental-health side on its own — depression, anxiety, grief — with no substance requirement. A useful second room for the weeks that side is loudest.
Wondering how to ask for integrated care?
The one sentence that changes intake routing — and the three follow-up questions that separate integrated programs from hopeful brochures — live on our integrated-care page, word for word.
Want a person to walk it through with you?
Take the private self-check, or ask us to make one warm introduction to a matched, licensed provider — with both conditions on the referral, free, and only with your consent.