The toolkit was developed by Centre of Innovation Campus Mental Health (CICMH) in partnership with the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA).

The purpose of this toolkit is to help staff and faculty increase their awareness, knowledge, and confidence in supporting students with concerns around eating disorders. While not meant to create experts, this resource offers a starting point for understanding eating disorders, disordered eating, and the unique risk factors students face in post-secondary environments. 

The Provincial System Support Program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health has developed an evidence-based animated video series to illustrate the mental health and well-being issues we may face as we age.  

This joint report by the Ontario Drug Policy Research Network (ODPRN) and Public Health Ontario (PHO) highlights the high prevalence of healthcare needs and use among Ontarians who died of a substance-related toxicity. It aims to help provide insight into where and why individuals present to healthcare settings prior to death, with the goal of identifying gaps in access to care and supportive services for people who use substances.

The report found:

December 10, 2024

School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, MO 

Scientists have revealed that opioid receptors outside the brain play a key role in the hypoventilation caused by fentanyl overdoses, paving the way for better treatments.

The study, forthcoming in eLife, offers compelling evidence demonstrating that fentanyl-induced respiratory depression in rodents can be reversed with a drug that acts only on peripheral opioid receptors. 

On October 22, 2024, a webinar about the link between co-occurring addiction problems and youth bipolar disorder and the brain science behind this association was co-hosted by the Centre for Youth Bipolar Disorder (CYBD) at CAMH with EENet in the Provincial System Support Program (PSSP) at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).

This webinar explored:

Alexithymia is the reduced or inability to identify and describe one's emotions. When asked to describe feelings, people with alexithymia will more often describe the physical corporeal response to the feeling, rather than the complex emotion itself.  Prior research has linked alexithymia to people with mental health disorders such as depression.  Now, a team of Max Plank Society researchers in Germany have found a link between psychopathy and alexithymia.  

Two researchers from the Université de Montréal Faculty of Medicine, Graciela Pineyro and Tomas Paus, have published their study this month which links Cannabis use to a thinning of the cerebral cortex in adolescents.  

Cells and Molecules Underpinning Cannabis-Related Variations in Cortical Thickness during Adolescence | Journal of Neuroscience

PEACE Psychotherapy is an association of independent private practice psychotherapists committed to teaching life changing DBT skills to some of the most challenging clients. We offer Individual, Family and Group Therapy to help clients struggling with overwhelming negative emotions and impulses, and habitual problem behaviours.

Check out this new report released by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC): Inequalities in Mental Health, Well-being and Wellness: Social Determinants and Changes Over Time (https://health-infobase.canada.ca/mental-health/inequalities/report.html).

Experience Exchange is an ongoing series led by EENet that captures and shares the diverse experiences of working practitioners in Ontario’s mental health and addictions system. Evidence includes research, professional expertise, the lived experiences of people and families, and cultural and traditional knowledge.