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Implementation Contexts and the Impact of Policing on Access to Supervised Consumption Services in Toronto, Canada: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Academic article

Supervised consumption services (SCS) are being implemented across Canada in response to a variety of drug-related harms. This study explored the imp…

Source : Harm Reduction Journal
Format: PDF
Published: 2019
Topics: Best practices and implementation, Supervised consumption sites, Harm reduction

A Public Health Approach to Substance Use Handbook

Guide

This handbook was created by the Centre of Excellence for Women's Health and the Canadian Public Health Association to describe and illustrate severa…

Source : Centre of Excellence for Women's Health (CEWH), Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA)
Format: PDF
Published: 2023
Topics: Implementing a public health approach to substance use

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

Alcohol-Related Issues in Quebec's Municipal Environments: Consultation Report 

Report

The regulatory frameworks and distribution models for legal psychoactive substances, such as alcohol, not only vary between different substances but …

Source : Association pour la santé publique du Québec (ASPQ), Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA)
Format: PDF
Published: 2023
Topics: Substance use policy, Implementing a public health approach to substance use

Points de vue: Rapport de recherche sur le programme fédéral d'échange de seringues en prison au Canada

Report

  Malgré les nombreuses preuves empiriques démontrant l’efficacité des programmes d’échange de seringues, le Service correctionnel fédéral du C…

Source : Réseau Juridique VIH
Format: PDF
Published: 2022
Topics: Legalization and policy approaches, Substance use policy, Harm reduction, Harm reduction supplies, Population-specific resources

Stigma in Intervention: Let’s Be Aware of It

Workbook

Written by the Association des intervenants en dépendance du Québec (AIDQ) in collaboration with the Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Mi…

Source : Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse (CRISM), Association des intervenants en dépendance du Québec (AIDQ)
Format: PDF
Published: 2022
Topics: Challenging structural stigma

Le stigma en intervention: En prendre conscience

Workbook

Rédigé par l’Association des intervenants en dépendance du Québec (AIDQ), en collaboration avec l’Initiative canadienne de recherche en abus de subst…

Source : Initiative canadienne de recherche en abus de substance (ICRAS), Association des intervenants en dépendance du Québec (AIDQ)
Format: PDF
Published: 2022
Topics: Challenging structural stigma

Rapport sur les enjeux de la consommation d’alcool en milieu municipal

Report

Considérant que l’organisation légale et de la santé varient dans la province québécoise, plusieurs personnes du domaine municipal et du milieu de la…

Source : Association pour la santé publique du Québec (ASPQ), Association canadienne de santé publique
Format: PDF
Published: 2023
Topics: Substance use policy, Implementing a public health approach to substance use

Police & Harm Reduction: How Law Enforcement can Advance Public Safety, Public Health, and Public Confidence

Guide

Globally, law enforcement officers have grown increasingly frustrated with the limited effectiveness of traditional drug enforcement approaches that …

Source : Open Society Foundations
Format: PDF
Published: 2018
Topics: Best practices and implementation

Savoir reconnaître et agir lors d’une intoxication sévère ou d’une surdose liée à la consommation de substances psychoactives ou d’un sevrage d’alcool

Fact sheet/infographic

Cette boîte à outils s’adresse aux intervenants qui travaillent auprès des personnes qui utilisent des substances psychoactives (SPA), qu’ils soient …

Source : Équipe de soutien clinique et organisationnel en dépendance et itinérance (ESCODI), Institut universitaire sur les dépendances (IUD)
Format: PDF
Published: 2021
Topics: Harm reduction, Harm reduction supplies, Naloxone