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"There is a Place": Impacts of Managed Alcohol Programs for People Experiencing Severe Alcohol Dependence and Homelessness

Academic article

Managed alcohol programs (MAPs) are harm reduction interventions that aim to reduce the harms of severe alcohol use, poverty and homelessness. The au…

Source : Harm Reduction Journal
Format: PDF
Published: 2019
Topics: Harm reduction, Managed alcohol programs, Substance-specific resources

Moving Toward a Recovery-Oriented System of Care: A Resource for Service Providers and Decision Makers

Report

This report presents ways that Canada can move towards a recovery-oriented system of care, based on six guiding principles for recovery, the findings…

Source : Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA)
Format: PDF
Published: 2017
Topics: Treatment and recovery, Recovery and resilience

Clearing the Smoke on Cannabis: Respiratory and Cardiovascular Effects of Cannabis Smoking

Report

This report reviews research about the effects of smoking cannabis on the cardiovascular and respiratory systems (heart and lungs). Findings of the r…

Source : Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA)
Format: PDF
Published: 2020
Topics: Understanding substance use, Spectrum of substance use, Substance-specific resources

Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on People Who Use Substances: What We Heard

Report

This report summarizes consultations with people who use or have used substances, their families and friends, harm reduction workers and people provi…

Source : Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA)
Format: PDF
Published: 2020
Topics: COVID-19, Featured COVID-19 resources

Drug Policy and Harm Reduction

Policy

This policy brief outlines facts and figures and priorities for action related to HIV/AIDS and harm reduction and drug policy. 

Source : Canadian Drug Policy Coalition (CDPC), HIV Legal Network
Format: PDF
Published: 2016
Topics: Policy, decision-making and legal approaches, Substance use policy

Creating a Climate for Change

Guide

In 2016, FNHA carried out an extensive initiative to support health service staff in achieving the collective goal of culturally safe health services…

Source : First Nations Health Authority (FNHA)
Format: PDF
Published: 2016
Topics: Equity and anti-oppressive approaches, Indigenous cultural safety, Population-specific resources

Determining the Features of Managed Alcohol Programs: Rapid Synthesis

Academic article

There are growing concerns globally of the health and social harms caused by alcohol. This rapid synthesis synthesizes the best available evidence on…

Source : McMaster Health Forum
Format: PDF
Published: 2019
Topics: Harm reduction, Managed alcohol programs, Substance-specific resources

Methamphetamine Webinar Series - Part 2: Working With and Supporting People Who Use Methamphetamine

Webinar

The purpose of this webinar is to learn the signs of overdose and how to respond, examine behaviours associated with methamphetamine use and strategi…

Source : Ontario Harm Reduction Network (OHRN)
Format: Link
Published: 2018
Topics: Lived and living experience of substance use, Best practices and engagement toolkits, Substance-specific resources

Evidence Brief: Evidence on Rescue Breathing or Chest Compressions in Local Naloxone Programs

Academic article

An assessment of conventional vs. compression-only CPR resuscitation for cardiac and non-cardiac arrest.

Source : Public Health Ontario (PHO)
Format: PDF
Published: 2017
Topics: Harm reduction, Naloxone, Substance-specific resources

Lessons Learned from the Opioid Crisis Across the Pillars of the Canadian Drugs and Substances Strategy

Academic article

This review examines responses to the opioid crisis thus far, the lessons learned from these initiatives and the knowledge gaps that still need to be…

Source : Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy (Journal)
Format: PDF
Published: 2019
Topics: A public health approach, How to implement a public health approach to substance use, Substance-specific resources