About Brad
Brad Melnychuk first made his débuts into the non-profit sector when he assumed the position of Executive Director Association for Better Living and Education (ABLE) Canada in 1996. Shortly thereafter he was training tutors in the city of Toronto by running workshops through the Toronto Literacy Project, a volunteer group he started in 1997. He has contributed on many facets thereafter.
He spent three years as a Committee Member of the City of Toronto Board of Health Drug Prevention Grants Review Panel. For five years Brad Melnychuk was a very active member of the Community Police Liaison Committee, Toronto Police Services 52 Division. From his position in ABLE Canada he is a consultant of Canadian Narconon Drug Rehabilitation and Prevention Organizations and Criminon groups; and a consultant of Applied Scholastics Licensed Education centres, and The Way to Happiness Foundations, chapters and groups.
Brad Melnychuk has a history of rolling up his sleeves and being directly involved in his own network, and outside of it. He has traveled at nights in Toronto street vans, assisting in feeding the homeless under bridges and on the sidewalks, and dark alleys of Toronto. Brad has helped addicts come off the streets or out of the courts; connected them to family and got them arrived in rehab. He has personally counseled recovering addicts, tutored children of middle-class families and also youth in jail. He has trained trainers and established after-school programs, surveyed the homeless; and has met the last two prime ministers of Canada. He was one of the contributors to provide first-hand evidence to the Special Committee on Non-Medical Use of Drugs in Ottawa, whose function was to set the drug strategy for Canada.
Mr Melnychuk has delivered lectures/workshops on grant writing, on how to study, on drug free withdrawal, on ethics/morals and other topics. Mr Melnychuk has fund-raised and ran public events. He is a hobby writer and home-cook.
Brad was raised on a dairy-farm in rural Manitoba and graduated from Stonewall Collegiate, a town north of Winnipeg. His religion is Scientology. He also studies Islam, Judaism and the Bibles – old and new testaments. He has experienced the spiritual peace of Native Talk Circles. He claims a broadened understanding of life from each. He loves his wife and family. He commonly works from Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Edmonton and Winnipeg.
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Brad has written 21 articles so far, you can find them below.
Filed under Drug Addiction by Brad Z Melnychuk on March 27, 2013 at 10:58 PM
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Be Drug Free. Don’t believe the propaganda – Don’t believe the profiteers’ dogma. Drugs are not for your well being, Drugs are known to cause your losing. Look. See –the lives its ruined. Ask a user if he’d wished he hadn’t. Ask an ex-addict why he stopped. Ask a addict if he wished he were [...]
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Filed under Drug Addiction Stories, Drug and Alcohol Fact Sheets by Brad Z Melnychuk on March 21, 2013 at 9:04 PM
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(TO THE HOMELESS AND “STREET PEOPLE”; WITH UNDERSTANDING) I saw him there sitting, just he and his bottle. In a stairwell he was, for again another stay. No one knows better the sidewalks than he. Or those feelings… of loss and the dulling sensation daily from his drink, than he, this castaway. The streets feel [...]
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Filed under Alcohol Addiction by Brad Z Melnychuk on March 10, 2013 at 3:27 PM
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It was his 18th birthday; drinking age for his province. “Finally, I can get drunk legally!” he thought. He celebrated with his friends and drank more beer and rum than he ever had. He wanted to drive home but couldn’t walk. He argued with his friends about who should drive. They weren’t in better shape [...]
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Filed under Drug and Alcohol Fact Sheets by Brad Z Melnychuk on March 8, 2013 at 6:01 PM
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There are probably over 300 graduates of the Narconon program in Ontario. There also are graduates in Alberta, in Quebec, in British Columbia and Manitoba. Their ages range from 19 to 60. These are persons who had at one time or another needed addiction treatment. Some were cocaine users, some heroin, crack, crystal meth, oxycontin [...]
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Filed under Drug Rehabilitation Stories by Brad Z Melnychuk on March 1, 2013 at 12:22 AM
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A friend once told me, “Brad, you haven’t lived until you’ve worked in Drug Rehab.” I didn’t know what he meant until I did stay and work at a Drug Rehabilitation centre for weeks at a time, several times. There is the story of the client there who smiled and shook my hand and told [...]
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Filed under Alcohol Addiction, Drug Addiction by Brad Z Melnychuk on January 30, 2013 at 7:40 PM
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Do you know anyone who seems addicted to Alcohol? Cocaine? Pain killers? Or they might be using another prescribed drug which is supposed to relieve the withdrawal symptoms of some different drug but then stay on that prescription one instead. These are common addicts and often live in your own household, or in your family [...]
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Filed under Cocaine Abuse Symptoms, Crack & Drug Addiction by Brad Z Melnychuk on January 8, 2013 at 12:06 AM
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John Crown is a wonderful man, or was when he first married. Now he does cocaine, crack, drinks too much and abuses his wife; verbally and physically. Anna however never forgot the man she originally married; how kind he was to her, in the past, and so much fun too, back then. She loved her [...]
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Filed under Alcohol Addiction by Brad Z Melnychuk on December 28, 2012 at 10:40 PM
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Claude is an alcoholic; a drinker. His wife, Marie, attends Al-Anon meetings; to be with families of alcoholics because her husband drinks. Claude has often told Marie he has quit drinking. But he keeps a bottle hidden in the tool shed. She smells the liquor on his breath anyway. He goes out after work with [...]
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