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Expériences Santé Canada: Galerie de la Stigmatisation

Website

Le Centre d’expériences de Santé Canada est un endroit où les adolescents, les parents et les enseignants peuvent apprendre et étudier les questions …

Source : Santé Canada
Format: Link
Published: 2022
Topics: Stories and perspectives

Audio series on opioids: In Plain Sight

Podcast

We are facing a national opioid crisis. It’s affecting our friends, family and community members. While there are thousands of stories to be told, th…

Source : Health Canada
Format: Link
Published: 2021
Topics: Stories and perspectives

Case Study: Supervised consumption site at the Blood Ties Four Directions Centre

Document

The supervised consumption site (SCS) at Blood Ties Four Directions Centre provides a safe space for people to consume their drugs by injection, snor…

Source : CATIE, Blood Ties Four Directions Centre
Format: Link
Published: 2023
Topics: Supervised consumption sites

Dads in Gear

Website

This resource addresses the issues of fathering and masculinities in the context of reducing or eliminating tobacco use. It uses a gendered approach …

Source : University of British Columbia (UBC), Dads in Gear
Format: Link
Published: 2017
Topics: Trauma - and violence - informed approaches and gender-informed responses, Indigenous cultural safety, Treatment and harm reduction

Substance Use and the Workplace: Supporting Employers and Employees in the Trades

Toolkit

Opioid overdoses and deaths are a public health crisis affecting many working Canadians. Use of alcohol, cannabis, cocaine and other substances also …

Source : Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA)
Format: PDF
Published: 2022
Topics: Health promotion, Determinants of health

Blueprint for Action: Preventing substance-related harms among youth through a Comprehensive School Health approach

Framework

  The Blueprint for Action provides guidance for school communities to help support thinking differently about youth substance use and to inform…

Source : Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)
Format: Link
Published: 2021
Topics: Best practices and implementation, Upstream interventions, Challenging structural stigma, Other approaches, Equity centered approaches

Federal Actions on Opioids to Date

Fact sheet/infographic

The Government of Canada's actions to address the overdose crisis to help save lives, including government funding for projects, increased access to …

Source : Health Canada
Format: PDF
Published: 2023
Topics: Implementing a public health approach to substance use, Legalization and policy approaches

Mesures fédérales sur les opioïdes à ce jour

Fact sheet/infographic

Les mesures prises par le gouvernement du Canada pour faire face à la crise des surdoses afin d'aider à sauver des vies, y compris les projets financ…

Source : Santé Canada
Format: PDF
Published: 2023
Topics: Implementing a public health approach to substance use, Legalization and policy approaches

Final Report: Survey of Public Health, Public Safety, Health and Social Service Professionals on a Public Health Approach to Substance Use

Report

As part of the Normalizing Conversations project launched in 2020, the Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) conducted a survey of public health,…

Source : Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA), Normalizing Conversations Project Team
Format: PDF
Published: 2023
Topics: Implementing a public health approach to substance use, Best practices and implementation

Guidance on take-home naloxone distribution and use by community overdose responders in Canada

Academic article

The increasing toxicity of opioids in the unregulated drug market has led to escalating numbers of overdoses in Canada and worldwide; takehome naloxo…

Source : Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse (CRISM), Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ)
Format: Link
Published: 2023
Topics: Naloxone, Harm reduction