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Co-Constructing a Community-Based Telemedicine Program for People With Opioid Use Disorder During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learned and Implications for Future Service Delivery

Academic article

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered unprecedented expansion of telemedicine, including in the delivery of opioid agonist treatment (OAT) for people with …

Source : JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
Format: Link
Published: 2023
Topics: Harm reduction, Other approaches, Substance-specific resources

Plan d’action : Prévenir les méfaits liés à la consommation de substances chez les jeunes par une approche globale de la santé en milieu scolaire

Framework

  Le Plan d’action donne aux communautés scolaires des conseils qui les aideront à réfléchir différemment quant à la consommation de substances chez…

Source : Agence de la santé publique du Canada
Format: Link
Published: 2021
Topics: Best practices and implementation, Upstream interventions, Harm reduction, Other approaches, Equity centered approaches

Blueprint for Action: Preventing substance-related harms among youth through a Comprehensive School Health approach

Framework

  The Blueprint for Action provides guidance for school communities to help support thinking differently about youth substance use and to inform…

Source : Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)
Format: Link
Published: 2021
Topics: Best practices and implementation, Upstream interventions, Challenging structural stigma, Other approaches, Equity centered approaches

Community Plans to Prevent and Reduce Opioid-Related Harms

Report

A summary of a scoping review, which aimed to characterize the key components of opioid-related plans.

Source : Public Health Ontario (PHO)
Format: PDF
Published: 2019
Topics: Harm reduction, Other approaches, Substance-specific resources

Heroin Compassion Clubs: A Cooperative Model to Reduce Opioid Overdose Deaths & Disrupt Organized Crime's Role in Fentanyl, Money Laundering & Housing Unaffordability

Report

The causal relationship between drug prohibition and transnational organized crime’s growth is well known and has been clearly articulated, while all…

Source : British Columbia Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU)
Format: PDF
Published: 2018
Topics: Harm reduction, Other approaches, Substance-specific resources

Integrating Culture into Opioid-Related Harm Reduction Programs

Webinar

This webinar, "Integrating Culture into Opioid-Related Harm Reduction Programs," was hosted by Shkaabe Makwa as the final webinar in the Âciwina Mâyi…

Source : Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Shkaabe Makwa
Format: Audiovisual
Published: 2021
Topics: Harm reduction, Other approaches, Determinants of health, Indigenous cultural safety, Population-specific resources

Crystal Meth: Developing Respectful Approaches and Solutions for Indigenous Health

Webinar

This webinar, hosted by the National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health (NCCIH) and the National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases…

Source : National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health (NCCIH)
Format: Audiovisual
Published: 2019
Topics: Determinants of health, Indigenous cultural safety, Harm reduction, Other approaches, Substance-specific resources, Population-specific resources

How an emergency department is organized to provide opioid-specific harm reduction and facilitators and barriers to harm reduction implementation: a systems perspective

Academic article

The intersection of dual public health emergencies—the COVID-19 pandemic and the drug toxicity crisis—has led to an urgent need for acute care based …

Source : Harm Reduction Journal
Format: Link
Published: 2023
Topics: Harm reduction, Supervised consumption sites, Other approaches

Community-Driven Harm Reduction Programs in Canada

Webinar

This webinar highlights novel, low-barrier approaches to harm reduction programs, how these programs are being delivered, and the lessons that have b…

Source : CATIE
Format: Audiovisual
Published: 2020
Topics: Harm reduction, Other approaches