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Vaping Cessation Guidance Resource

Guide

The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) created this resource to guide healthcare providers to support their clients who want to quit vapin…

Source : Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
Format: Link
Published: 2022
Topics: Treatment and harm reduction, Equity centered approaches, Best practices and guidelines

The Safer Bathroom Toolkit

Toolkit

Bathrooms can provide private, seemingly safe spaces for people to use substances, especially when they are unable to access supervised consumption …

Source : Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research (CISUR)
Format: Link
Published: 2022
Topics: Harm reduction

Les politiques publiques en matière de substances psychoactives et leurs impacts sur les populations en situation de précarité

Video

Les politiques publiques encadrant les substances psychoactives (SPA), licites ou non, n’atteignent pas de la même façon l’ensemble des personne…

Source : Équipe de soutien clinique et organisationnel en dépendance et itinérance (ESCODI)
Format: Link
Published: 2022
Topics: Legalization and policy approaches, Determinants of health, Substance use policy, Decriminalization

Knowing How to Recognize and Respond to a Severe Intoxication or Overdose Related to Psychoactive Substance Use or Alcohol Withdrawal

Fact sheet/infographic

This toolkit is intended for frontline service providers who work with people who use psychoactive substances, who may or may not be specialized in t…

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

An Update on Stimulant Use and Related Harms in Canada and the United States

Report

This bulletin summarizes the most recent updates on stimulant use and related harms in Canada and the United States. Revisiting indicators from the 2…

Source : Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA)
Format: PDF
Published: 2022
Topics: National data, Substance-specific resources

Evaluation of Psychoactive Substances that Bring Youth to the Emergency Department

Report

Examines the trends in substance-related visits to the emergency department (ED) among youth and young adults (12 to 24 years old) and the context of…

Source : Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA)
Format: PDF
Published: 2022
Topics: Population-specific resources, National data

Aider les jeunes qui consomment des opioïdes : réseau de soutien

Video

  Explique le rôle des fournisseurs de services dans le réseau de soutien d’un jeune en traitement pour usage d’opioïdes. La vidéo propose…

Source : Centre canadien sur les dépendances et l'usage de substances
Format: Audiovisual
Published: 2022
Topics: Best practices and guidelines, Substance-specific resources

Helping Young People Who Use Opioids: Treatment and Recovery Planning

Video

Explores strategies to reduce harm, withdrawal and tolerance, as well as treatment and recovery plans when treating a young person who uses opioids …

Source : Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA)
Format: Audiovisual
Published: 2022
Topics: Substance-specific resources, Best practices and guidelines

Vapotage de cannabis ou de nicotine : comprendre et identifier les risques pour la santé

Website

L’INSPQ a reçu le mandat de développer rapidement un document sur le vapotage répondant aux principales questions des intervenants qui travaillent au…

Source : Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ)
Format: Link
Published: 2022
Topics: Substance-specific resources, Cannabis legalization

Equity Walk-Through

Toolkit

This exercise will help staff ‘walk through’ the physical and social spaces where they provide care or services to clients. It will prompt staff to c…

Source : EQUIP Health Care
Format: Link
Published: 2022
Topics: Equity centered approaches, Challenging structural stigma