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The ideal and ongoing efforts to move government policy towards the principles of Basic Income to address poverty and the social determinants of health will be refocusing here in Ottawa on how to further advance, what many of us believe would be a significant shift with its focus on a whole…

Overwhelming demand - a nice problem to have - has led the Drug Strategy Network of Ontario in collaboration with Canadian Drug Policy Coalition and so many others to re-open the opportunity to endorse the letter urging provincial action.  Timmins and Sudbury are among existing sites…

As health care professionals providing care to vulnerable Canadians, you know that income is social determinant of health.  

 Prosper Canada is a national charity dedicated to expanding economic opportunity for Canadians living in poverty through program and policy innovation. Part of our…

The experience of problem gambling is unique to different groups. Older adults, in particular, frequently engage in gambling as a leisure activity. However, this may increase their risk of developing problem gambling. Various factors play a role in making older adults…

Here is an excellent stigma-reduction resource developed by Canadian Public Health Association and CAPSA.

New Challenging Structural Substance Use Workshop Package

This week (March 18), Toronto’s Drug Checking Service released two alerts regarding high-potency synthetic nitazene opioids circulating in the city's unregulated opioid supply.

The following information is summarized from their website:

Alert 1: Two new nitazene opioids identified…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Silence from Ontario Ministry of Health as Time Runs Out to Save Supervised Consumption Sites 

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The Grey Bruce Community Drug and Alcohol Strategy is looking for examples of survey questions/tools used to collect feedback from community members (i.e., partner agencies, the public, people with lived experience) on local priorities for drug strategies to focus on. Please…

Sharing the recording from an online briefing hosted by Canadian Drug Policy Coalition on Tuesday March 5th addressing the recent and impending closures of supervised consumption sites in Ontario.

Here is the link to the open letter calling for eight urgent actions

Here is the event…