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Myths & Facts About Supervised Consumption Services
Fact sheet/infographic
Research shows that SCS can also help improve safety in the surrounding community, that they have no negative impacts on crime, and that they can hel…
Source : WHY SCSFormat: PDF
Published: 2021
Topics: Harm reduction, Supervised consumption sites
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
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
Les bases de la réduction des méfaits : trousse pour prestataires de services
Online learning module
La réduction des méfaits est un aspect important dans l’appui envers les droits et la santé des personnes qui utilisent des drogues. Au Canada, on ob…
Source : CATIEFormat: Link
Published: 2022
Topics: Harm reduction, Background information on harm reduction
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
Projet communautaire d’analyse d’urine et d’auto-évaluation : rapport pancanadien sur l’usage de drogues du marché non réglementé, données de 2019-2021
Report
Décrit les tendances dans l’usage de substances et évalue si l’usage de substances attendu correspond au contenu réel détecté. Des données ont été re…
Source : Centre canadien sur les dépendances et l'usage de substancesFormat: 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
A Review of Supervised Inhalation Services in Canada
Academic article
This Rapid Response Review answers the questions: "What supervised inhalation services are available in Canada and what are their characteristics? Wh…
Source : The Ontario HIV Treatment Network (OHTN)Format: PDF
Published: 2022
Topics: Harm reduction, Supervised consumption sites, Health promotion, National data