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This is Not Home: Project Summary
Report
This summary report outlines research activities and results, and includes recommendations for improving low-barrier, gender-focused drop-ins and for…
Source : Homeless HubFormat: PDF
Published: 2021
Topics: Harm reduction, Housing, Determinants of health, Trauma - and violence - informed approaches and gender-informed responses, Population-specific resources

This is Not Home: Fast Facts
Fact sheet/infographic
This fact sheet describes barriers to housing and participant experiencies with housing and homelessness from This is Not Home (TINH) - a community-b…
Source : Homeless HubFormat: PDF
Published: 2021
Topics: Harm reduction, Housing, Determinants of health, Trauma - and violence - informed approaches and gender-informed responses, Population-specific resources

Overdose Prevention During a Pandemic
Report
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to present new challenges, historic, and systemic oppressors experienced by PWUD have only become more exacerbated…
Source : Canadian Association of People who Use Drugs (CAPUD), Dalhousie University Faculty of MedicineFormat: PDF
Published: 2021
Topics: Harm reduction, Background information on harm reduction

Hear Us, See Us, Respect Us: Respecting the Expertise of People who Use Drugs
Report
This report is a summary of key findings of a national community-based research project to identify existing and emerging best practices in respectin…
Source : Canadian Association of People who Use Drugs (CAPUD), Canadian Drug Policy Coalition (CDPC)Format: PDF
Published: 2021
Topics: Stigma and stigma reduction, Best practices and engagement toolkits, Determinants of health, Planning for equity

Sex, Gender & Cannabis: Pain and its Management
Fact sheet/infographic
This information sheet offers a snapshot of how sex, gender and equity-related factors influence the
health effects of cannabis. It can be used…
Format: PDF
Published: 2022
Topics: Population-specific resources, Substance-specific resources
Naloxone is Not Enough: Letters from the Heart of the Crisis
Report
The availability of naloxone as an emergency response intervention has been critical in saving lives. Modeling estimates that from January 2015 to Ma…
Source : BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC), Toward the HeartFormat: PDF
Published: 2021
Topics: Stigma and stigma reduction, Stories and perspectives, Harm reduction, Naloxone, Health promotion, Substance use policy

Report on Patterns of Medication and Healthcare Use among People who Died of an Opioid-Related Toxicity During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ontario
Report
This report describes the characteristics of people who died of an opioid-related poisoning in Ontario during the pandemic, as well as their patterns…
Format: PDFPublished: 2022
Topics: Provincial/Territorial and local data, Substance-specific resources
PHO Rounds: Opioid-related Toxicity Deaths and Health Services Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Webinar
This session will summarize the findings (up to the end of December 2020) from this analysis and discuss implications for planning and practice to re…
Source : Public Health Ontario (PHO)Format: Audiovisual
Published: 2022
Topics: Provincial/Territorial and local data, Substance-specific resources, COVID-19 resources
Community Urinalysis and Self-Report Project: Cross-Canada Report on the Use of Drugs from the Unregulated Supply, 2019-2021 Data
Report
Presents substance use trends and describes whether expected substance use matched actual substance contents. Data were collected from harm reduction…
Source : Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA)Format: Link
Published: 2022
Topics: Harm reduction, Drug checking services, Supervised consumption sites
Cannabis 101 + Harm Reduction: the Sensible Cannabis Education Toolkit Series
Toolkit
This resource is broken into three separate booklets. The content draws directly from CSSDP’s Sensible Cannabis Education Toolkit, originally publish…
Source : Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy (CSSDP)Format: PDF
Published: 2021
Topics: Harm reduction, Background information on harm reduction, Substance-specific resources, Population-specific resources
