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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

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

Understanding Stigma

Online learning module

The stigmatization of people living with mental illness including addiction is all too common in Canada, including within healthcare environments. Pe…

Source : Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC), Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
Format: Link
Published: 2023
Topics: Background information on stigma

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

Promoting Health Equity – Harm Reduction

Tool

Recent research shows that practitioners who implement brief, practical strategies at the point of care can profoundly improve patients' experiences…

Source : EQUIP Health Care
Format: Link
Published: 2018
Topics: Equity centered approaches, Background information on harm reduction, Challenging structural stigma

Respectful Language and Stigma Regarding People Who Use Substances

Background document

Healthcare workers and the media can greatly influence the way in which the public perceive people who use drugs (PWUDs). Therefore there is a need t…

Source : Toward the Heart, BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC)
Format: Link
Published: 2017
Topics: Destigmatizing language

History of Drug Policy in Canada

Background document

The following is a brief history of Canadian drug policy summarized from Busted: An Illustrated History of Drug Prohibition in Canada. The original b…

Source : Canadian Drug Policy Coalition (CDPC)
Format: Link
Published: 2021
Topics: Anti-racism, Substance use policy

Health Canada Experiences: Know More Opioids

Website

Since 2018 the Know More Opioids awareness program has engaged teens and youth across Canada on the facts surrounding the opioid overdose crisis, opi…

Source : Health Canada
Format: Link
Published: 2022
Topics: Background information on harm reduction

Surmonter la stigmatisation : apprentissage en ligne

Online learning module

C’est avec l’apprentissage en ligne que le CCDUS cherche à faire reculer la stigmatisation entourant l’usage de substances. Il a donc mis au point t…

Source : Centre canadien sur les dépendances et l'usage de substances
Format: Link
Published: 2021
Topics: Challenging structural stigma