Check out the Canadian Centre of Substance Use and and Addiction's resources on the 'Impacts of Covid-19 on Substance Use'

English version: https://www.ccsa.ca/Impacts-COVID-19-Substance-Use

French version: https://www.ccsa.ca/fr/Usage-d...bstances-et-COVID-19

Thanks CCSA for pulling these resources together! 

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Check out Nazilla Kahnlou's commentary on “Call for a Canadian Public Mental Health System:  Transformative Change amid a Global Pandemic”, published in the Journal of Concurrent Disorders (https://concurrentdisorders.ca/2019/12/21/online-first/). 

The article is also attached in this post. 

Greetings, EENet Connectors!We want to assure you that during this unprecedented and challenging time, we are continuing to monitor this online community and respond to your emails and messages.

I read this article posted by Kids Help Phone on twitter with tips for kids on how to deal with conflict between family members, some great tips with focus on building communication skills and giving voice to emotions. I thought I would share here for anyone that missed it.

https://kidshelpphone.ca/get-i...ween-family-members/

New research has found that despite the potential health risks of exceeding national drinking guidelines, many women aged 50 to 69 who consume alcohol at high risk levels tend to perceive their drinking as normal and acceptable, so long as they appear respectable and in control.

Key findings:

Hi all,

Please check out this impaired driving campaign developed by Thunder Bay District Health Unit (TBDHU) titled: “Feel High?...Dont’ Drive”. This campaign is a primarily social media driven that discusses the following:

Communicate that alcohol and drugs can dangerously impair driving capabilities and has health, financial, legal, and non-legal consequences.Differentiate the effects (physiological in context of driving applicability) of commonly legal and illicit drugs.

It includes 3 main components:

Racial discrimination is known to be linked to stress and to various health conditions in people from First Nations communities. Resiliency—or the ability to bounce back from adversity—has been shown to play an important role in a person’s ability to cope with stress.

Ontario researchers conducted a study to find out if Aboriginal cultural resilience—or resilience that is based on traditional language, ceremonial activities, and the environment—would decrease stress associated with racial discrimination in people from First Nations communities.

Serious rock stars over here at the Centre for Innovation in Peer Support @ Support & Housing-Halton.  Please see Ontario Health (Quality Business Unit) Quorum feature of the Centre's Peer Support Integrity, Quality & Impact Survey.  The link is below.

Canadian healthcare providers now have the tools they need to better support the prevention, assessment and treatment of older adults at risk of, or living with, substance use disorders. The Canadian Coalition for Seniors' Mental Health (CCSMH) officially launched four sets of clinical guidelines on substance use disorders in older adults today.

This month The BASIS is publishing a special series on open science practices. The BASIS (The Brief Addiction Science Information Source) is a knowledge exchange resource of the Division of Addiction at the Cambridge Health Alliance, a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital.