Cormac Russell https://www.nurturedevelopment...-are/cormac-russell/ in “Does more medicine make us sicker? Ivan Illich revisited” helps us to refocus on our efforts to improve individual care and advance system and social change through our organizations and institutions as the drivers of change. For me the practices of implementation science, has greatly brought needed light, tools and analysis to pulling organizations towards practice change.

Hello!

I'm a cannabis education outreach worker for the Six Nations Reserve. I'm toying around with a workshop idea that will essentially keep idle hands busy and away from cannabis, while also educating about cannabis. The target audience would be children and youth. I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas on activities for this?

Thanks in advance,

Please see Irit Shimrat's tribute to Don Weitz in Mad in America as well as information about Don Weitz's book Resistance Matters: The Radical Vision of an Antipsychiatry Activist

Keith McCandless of Liberating Structures community of practice shared this post on principles to guide organizational changes on the Integration and Implementation Insights site. This set of principles and what not to do, is going to save having to sit through more and more trainings as the way to advance change and instead get us to everyday practice. The “must not’s are fun to read as well.

On Saturday, The Globe and Mail ran an opinion piece by Susan Pinker, a psychologist, about a replication crisis in science. The past year and a half has brought hundreds of thousands of studies about COVID-19, along with an unusual level of enthrallment in science by the media and the public.

The Cannabis Knowledge Exchange Hub will have a virtual presentation at next week's Innovations in the Science of Cannabis conference, hosted by the Michael G. DeGroote Centre for Medicinal Cannabis Research.

The BC Centre on Substance Use wants to work with more people with lived experience (PWLE) of Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD). There are two opportunities to participate:

Interested in what it looks like to provide a safer opioid supply?

Check out EENet's interview with Rebecca Penn to learn about a promising practice that aims to reduce preventable deaths and keep people connected to care.

Former lawyers, Dr.’s Olivia Lee and Lwam Ghebrehariat now entering psychiatry share their perspectives on the dynamics between law and psychiatry.