New research on substance use during the pandemic suggests alcohol consumption among Canadians has increased since the onset of the pandemic with nearly a quarter (24 per cent) of Canadians reporting increased alcohol consumption (Statistics Canada).

Data are now available from the 2019/20 collection cycle of the Canadian Postsecondary Education Alcohol & Drug Use Survey. Data were collected from 21,297 students at 41 universities, colleges, and CEGEPS.

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Drug prohibition (i.e., the banning of drugs) and criminalization (i.e., making using, selling or having drugs illegal) is costly and ineffective. It is time for these failed policies to end and to invest in the most heavily affected racialized communities.

Pandemic-related stress is having a greater impact on people, especially women, living in households with young children, a

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York University researchers, in collaboration with CAMH, have launched a first-of-its-kind mental health literacy guide to address the knowledge gap in supporting autistic adults. The free guide combines input from research and first-person accounts of autism in Canada, and provides:

Check out this new Infographic!Assessment of health conditions and health service use among transgender patients in Canada

The Revised Children’s Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS) assesses for both anxiety and depression in children and youth 8-18 years old. It’s currently free, validated, and recommended by an international group of experts. Learn more about the RCADS in our Quick Guide, which outlines how the questionnaire is administered and scored. The Quick Guide also proposes a way of using RCADS scores to calculate indicators of change, such as response, remission, recovery, relapse, and recurrence.

Video #1: "Monitoring Mental Health: Using measurement tools to inform care for youth" (2:56).

Health Equity and Inclusion Framework for Education and Training was created  to integrate equity and inclusion into the planning, development and implementation of educational and training initiatives for health professionals.

Recognizing health inequities and considering the needs of vulnerable and marginalized populations, it promotes learning environments and experiences that: