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Reply to "Safer Substance Use for the North – Communications Toolkit for Mental Health and Addictions Service Providers"

Thank-you for sharing this. It looks like a great set of resources. That said, there was one resource that might be problematic according to some research I came across about using myth-fact approach for trying to shift mental models (i.e. Harm Reduction Myth Busters on page 28). The resource showed that using a myth-fact approach sometimes has the opposite effect by reinforcing the myth, rather than “busting” the myth that people have...and often attributing the myth to the publisher of the myth-fact information (the organization trying to bust the myth in the first place).

Conversely, the research also provided some insight into what is effective in shifting mental models (i.e. explanation).

I have attached a portion of the Drug Strategy Network of Ontario (DSNO) Advocacy Strategy Primer that explains, along with the source of the research. Happy to discuss further if need be, and open to any refuting of this claim. Thank-you again.

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