substance use

Check out this new Promising Practice!

Gerstein Crisis Centre: Mobile Crisis Team

Here is a sneak peek:

A courageous story of drug addiction and recovery before, during and after participation in a Drug Treatment Court program.

This is a story told by Paulette Walker, a person with lived experience. A story about addiction, sobriety, hope and the resilience of the human spirit. The perils of addiction. The hope of sobriety. How one courageous individual engaged in drug addiction treatment, how she has maintained her sobriety and how she has worked in a drug treatment court to help others engage in treatment towards achieving and maintaining sobriety.

What you need to know

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

Public Health 2021 is the national conference where public health professionals, researchers, policy-makers, academics, students and trainees come together to strengthen efforts to improve health and well-being, to share the latest research and information, to promote best practices and to advocate for public health issues and policies grounded in research.

The Steering Committee invites oral and poster abstracts, didactic symposia and interactive workshop submissions to be presented 6-8 October 2021.

The Canadian Public Health Association is inviting public health, public safety, health and social service providers and other professionals and practitioners to participate in a short survey on substance use.

Your answers will help us to better understand your knowledge and perspectives of substance use, and topics you would like to learn more about.  Your participation in this survey will support the creation of tools, resources and online learning modules to support the implementation of a public health approach to substance use in Canada.

You’re invited for EHN Canada’s special event:

Workplace Mental Health and Addiction Summit

Hosted by Ian Rabb, Regional Director of Business Development, EHN Canada

Program

My son Pete died on Dec 23 2021 to an accidental Opioid Overdose. It will be TWENTY YEARS this year that he died.  I shake my head in absolute despair about this escalating crisis/epidemic.

From Jan 2020 to the end of November 2020…2167 people have died

59% increase over the same period in 2019

We are Excited to Announce our Virtual Learning Centre and Resource Hub!

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.

Youth and substance use: Examining engagement, equity, and motivational approaches in clinical practice

Presented by SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health Learning Institute

Live webinar series dates: May 6, 13, 14 and 20, 2021 | Time: 1 to 4 p.m. (four half-day sessions)

You’re invited for our next educational webinar:

Treating Concurrent Mood Disorders and Addiction

With Dr. Mel Vincent, B.A.Sc., M.Sc., M.D., F.R.C.P.(C), ASAM, Director of Psychiatric Services, Edgewood Treatment Centre

The Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) is now accepting submissions for its Issues of Substance 2021 conference.

The conference acknowledges the principle that all voices should have a platform to share knowledge and experience. With this in mind, the organizers welcome submissions for research, program or policy abstracts (Academic Abstracts) and submissions based on personal experience related to substance use (Personal Experience).

Click on this link at the time of the event to join (password: Rounds): https://camh.webex.com/camh/on...55c63d94bda9bd4016d2

The Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA), in partnership with the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, the Canadian Psychological Association and Canada Health Infoway, is conducting a

You’re invited for EHN Canada’s next educational webinar:

The Link Between Trauma and Substance Use

With Ryan Slobodian, BA, MC, RCC, CSAT Candidate, Registered Clinical Counsellor, Edgewood Treatment Centre

Level One Core QoC Workshop Series

REGISTER HERE

Dates

Part One: Friday, April 9, 2021 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST
Part Two: Friday, April 16, 2021 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST
Part Three: Friday, April 23, 2021 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST

Location

Hosted via Zoom. Participants will be able to attend online or call-in over the phone.

Register here for the CPHA webinar Barriers to Legal Cannabis Access: The emergence of Community-Based Cannabis Distribution Programs in Vancouver.