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Theme: Drugs

Foundational Documents, Guidelines, Handbooks & Toolkits,

Recommandations de pratiques exemplaires pour les programmes canadiens de réduction des méfaits

Cover of french-language version of Best Practice Recommendations

December 1, 2021
Foundational Documents, Guidelines, Handbooks & Toolkits,

Best Practice Recommendations for Canadian Harm Reduction Programs

Cover of Best Practice Recommendations

December 1, 2021
Multimedia Formats,

Decriminalize Now: Akia’s Story

November 10, 2021
Multimedia Formats, Organizations, Initiatives & Services,

Label Me Person

Label Me Person

November 10, 2021
Education & Training, Multimedia Formats,

Risk of Novel Synthetic Opioids in Ontario

October 28, 2021
Research, Reports & Media,

Evidence Brief: Novel Non-Fentanyl Synthetic Opioids: Risk Assessment and Implications for Practice

October 28, 2021
Research, Reports & Media,

The drug toxicity and overdose crisis in Canada: a snapshot of what the current data tell us

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September 10, 2021
Research, Reports & Media,

Cannabis for depression: How Forbes got it wrong

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August 16, 2021
Multimedia Formats, Research, Reports & Media,

Drug Policy Voices: Engaging people who use drugs into debates about UK Drug Policy

August 6, 2021
Multimedia Formats,

#42 – Alternatives to Prohibition with Dr Sheila Vakharia and Prof Alex Stevens

August 4, 2021
Client-facing Material, Education & Training, Organizations, Initiatives & Services,

Harm Reduction TO

July 28, 2021
Multimedia Formats,

Episode 61: Undoing Drugs—Harm Reduction’s Early History with Maia Szalavitz

July 27, 2021
Client-facing Material, Education & Training, Multimedia Formats,

How to Use Narcan with the DOPE Project

July 19, 2021
Research, Reports & Media,

Modelling opioid-related deaths during the COVID-19 outbreak

June 25, 2021
Research, Reports & Media,

Opioid- and Stimulant-related Harms in Canada

June 23, 2021
Research, Reports & Media,

Substance-related poisonings and homelessness in Canada: a descriptive analysis of hospitalization data

June 22, 2021
Education & Training,

An American History of Drugs and Addiction, Part 7: The Harm Reduction Revolution

June 22, 2021
Multimedia Formats,

The case for decriminalizing drugs: an Opioid user and Toronto’s medical officer of health weigh in

June 18, 2021
Research, Reports & Media,

Five Dangerous Fentanyl Myths Debunked by Science

June 16, 2021
Organizations, Initiatives & Services, Research, Reports & Media,

Drug Analysis Service (January to March 2021) – PHAC

June 8, 2021
Education & Training, OHRN Original,

One-for-One Needle Exchange: Evidence and Best Practices

June 7, 2021
Organizations, Initiatives & Services, Research, Reports & Media,

Naloxone Is Not Enough: Letters From The Heart Of The Crisis

June 6, 2021
Research, Reports & Media,

The Methadone Manifesto: A Powerful Blow Against the Clinic System

May 12, 2021
Research, Reports & Media,

The power of patient voice: Addressing provider stigma toward opioid use disorder through personal narrative

May 11, 2021
Research, Reports & Media,

Recommendations on Alternatives to Criminal Penalties for Simple Possession of Controlled Substances

May 6, 2021
Education & Training,

Reducing the risk

April 28, 2021
Research, Reports & Media,

Changes in substance supply and use characteristics among people who use drugs (PWUD) during the COVID-19 global pandemic: A national qualitative assessment in Canada

April 20, 2021
Research, Reports & Media,

Monthly suspect drug-related deaths summary table | January 2019 – March 2021

April 9, 2021
Guidelines, Handbooks & Toolkits,

The Methadone Manifesto

April 1, 2021
Multimedia Formats, Research, Reports & Media,

Characterizing prescription benzodiazepine use among community-dwelling residents of Ontario, Canada

April 1, 2021
Education & Training, Research, Reports & Media,

What is the impact of opioid agonist therapy on hepatitis C testing and treatment for people who inject drugs?

April 1, 2021
Research, Reports & Media,

Five things to know about… Caring for people who inject drugs when they are admitted to hospital

March 22, 2021
Education & Training,

Cultural Competency and Sexualized Substance Use

March 18, 2021
Research, Reports & Media,

Monthly suspect drug-related deaths summary table | January 2019-Feb 2021

March 12, 2021
Research, Reports & Media,

Women Are Leading Canada’s Safe Supply Movement

March 10, 2021
Research, Reports & Media,

Our Adulterated Supply: Underreported Complications for Opioid Users

March 9, 2021
Research, Reports & Media,

Most People With Addiction Outgrow It Naturally. We Need to Hear Them.

March 1, 2021
Organizations, Initiatives & Services,

Injectable Opioid Agonist Treatment (iOAT)

March 1, 2021
Research, Reports & Media,

“The Times They Are a-Changin’”: Addressing Common Misconceptions About the Role of Safe Supply in North America’s Overdose Crisis

February 15, 2021
Multimedia Formats, Research, Reports & Media,

The Cost of a Crisis

February 12, 2021
Education & Training,

Knowledge Exchange Event: Long Acting Injectable Buprenorphine

January 27, 2021
Education & Training,

Microdosing Psychedelics: The Curse of Studies Doomed to Being Uninformative

January 20, 2021
Organizations, Initiatives & Services,

Vancouver Island Drug Checking Project

January 1, 2021
Education & Training,

Harm Reduction Collection

January 1, 2021
Organizations, Initiatives & Services,

Filter Magazine

January 1, 2021
Organizations, Initiatives & Services,

Global Drug Survey

January 1, 2021
Organizations, Initiatives & Services,

Release Legal Emergency & Drugs Service

January 1, 2021
Education & Training, Multimedia Formats,

Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy (documentary film)

January 1, 2021
Organizations, Initiatives & Services,

Toronto Drug Checking Service

January 1, 2021
Multimedia Formats, Organizations, Initiatives & Services,

Crackdown Podcast

January 1, 2021
Education & Training, Multimedia Formats,

The Drugs Wheel

January 1, 2021
Organizations, Initiatives & Services,

Toronto Overdose Information System

January 1, 2021
Organizations, Initiatives & Services,

RollSafe

January 1, 2021
Client-facing Material,

Responding to an Opioid Overdose, Responding to Stimulant Overuse and Overdose

December 10, 2020

Harm reduction satellite sites: A guide for operating harm reduction hubs from the homes of people who use drugs

October 28, 2020
Research, Reports & Media,

Addressing the Syndemic of HIV, Hepatitis C, Overdose, and COVID-19 Among People Who Use Drugs: The Potential Roles for Decriminalization and Safe Supply

October 9, 2020
Research, Reports & Media,

2019 Opioid Mortality in Ontario and preliminary 2020 trends

July 17, 2020
Research, Reports & Media,

Drug Market Trends: People who use drugs, COVID-19, and drug market changes

June 8, 2020
Research, Reports & Media,

Exploring Expanded Response Options to Opioid Harms: Case Studies from Four Canadian Clinics

June 1, 2020
Client-facing Material,

Let’s give bacteria the boot: a guide to reducing your risk of infection

April 1, 2020
OHRN Original, Research, Reports & Media,

Benzodiazepines in the unregulated drug supply in Ontario

March 1, 2020
Education & Training, Multimedia Formats,

Videos – Wellington Guelph Drug Strategy

January 1, 2020
Education & Training,

Drugs A to Z

January 1, 2020
Client-facing Material,

5-step overdose response during COVID-19

January 1, 2020
Client-facing Material,

COVID-19 Harm reduction tips

January 1, 2020
Client-facing Material, Organizations, Initiatives & Services,

TripSit: Harm reduction through education

January 1, 2020
Client-facing Material, Education & Training,

NEXT Distro Safer Injection Resource Collection

January 1, 2020
Research, Reports & Media,

Drugs in the Time of COVID: Interim Report

January 1, 2020
Education & Training,

ADF Information Services

January 1, 2020
Education & Training,

Crystal Meth eLearning Series

December 1, 2019
Guidelines, Handbooks & Toolkits,

Mothering and opioids: Addressing stigma – acting collaboratively

November 1, 2019
Research, Reports & Media,

Ontario Opioid Mortality Trends

October 30, 2019
Education & Training,

Drug Facts

October 24, 2019
Research, Reports & Media,

Critical Review Report: Flualprazolam

October 21, 2019
Research, Reports & Media,

Canada’s hidden opioid crisis: the health care system’s inability to manage high-dose opioid patients

September 1, 2019
Education & Training, Multimedia Formats, Research, Reports & Media,

The Drug Science Podcast

July 29, 2019
Guidelines, Handbooks & Toolkits,

Good Practices for Working with Participants Who Use Crystal Meth

May 30, 2019
OHRN Original, Research, Reports & Media,

False reports of fentanyl in cannabis

May 1, 2019
Organizations, Initiatives & Services,

Canadian Association for Safe Supply (CASS)

January 1, 2019
Client-facing Material,

The Young Injectables: Harnessing the Power of Harm Reduction

January 1, 2019
Client-facing Material, Multimedia Formats,

The Young Injectables: Harnessing the Power of Harm Reduction (comic book)

January 1, 2019
Client-facing Material,

Using non-prescribed benzos: a harm reduction guide

December 1, 2018
Research, Reports & Media,

The misuse of benzodiazepines among high-risk opioid users in Europe

November 14, 2018
Research, Reports & Media,

AMHO Submission to MOHLTC Overview of the Effectiveness of Supervised Consumption Services

September 4, 2018
Client-facing Material,

Harm Reduction Zines: Methamphetazine, Methamphetazine, Wound Care

June 18, 2018
Research, Reports & Media,

Resurrection myth: A rude awakening for alleged ‘Lazarus parties’

February 28, 2018
Education & Training,

Chest compressions and rescue breathing when administering naloxone in opioid overdose

August 1, 2016
Research, Reports & Media,

Methamphetamine: An Update on Epidemiology, Pharmacology, Clinical Phenomenology, and Treatment Literature

October 1, 2014
Client-facing Material,

A guide to staying off crystal for a day or longer, including harm reduction strategies: Practical tips from gay and bisexual men

April 1, 2013
Client-facing Material, Organizations, Initiatives & Services,

Drug cocktails: facts about mixing medicine, booze and street drugs

January 1, 2013