This issue of Developments is dedicated to answering some of the questions people ask us most often. For example, in the employment statistics, clients who are students or retirees are not included in the figures given.
Collaterals are family and friends of people with alcohol, other drug, or gambling problems.
The remainder came either for gambling issues alone or for gambling in addition to alcohol and other drug issues. Since 1994, gambling prevalence in Alberta has declined slightly while problem gambling rates have remained stable. They are also more likely to be married and employed. This is a change from 1994-95, when cannabis was the second most frequently used drug. Productivity losses account for the majority of the costs of substance abuse in Alberta, as estimated in the report The Costs of Substance Abuse in Canada.