substance use

Canada is facing unprecedented challenges with opiate and amphetamine addiction, housing instability, and mental health. How can public systems—such as policing, homelessness and health—respond strategically?

Join the Systems Planning Collective and a panel of experts as they discuss promising approaches for local responses.

Direct registration link: https://is.gd/TERSeptember2019

The Canadian Coalition for Seniors Mental Health (CCSMH) has been funded through the Substance Use and Addictions Program (SUAP) of Health Canada to create a set of four guidelines on the prevention, assessment, and management of substance use disorders among older adults for alcohol, benzodiazepine receptor agonists (BZRAs), cannabis, and opioids. 

This presentation will provide useful guidance for clinicians on preventing the development of BZRA use disorder and optimally assessing and treating older individuals who have developed such a disorder.

Provide your feedback on Health Quality Ontario's draft quality standard on alcohol use and alcohol use disorder.

The draft quality standard outlines quality care for people aged 15 and older and is based on the best evidence, along with input from clinicians, patients and caregivers.

Accompanying the draft standard is a patient guide to help people ask questions and have informed discussions with their health care providers.

https://zoom.us/webinar/regist...0fd87c24e00bf0acd2b8

Please see attached PDF below if this link does not work.

Are you Passionate About Learning and Recovery? 

Help us create and design the new CAMH recovery college!

We are looking for people with lived experience of mental health and/or substance use challenges from these groups:
• youth (aged 16 to 29)
• women
• newcomers
• people who have experienced or are currently experiencing addiction
• people who have experienced or are currently experiencing racism.

Peer Staff Supervision Training hosted by Centre For Innovation in Peer Support

INTERACTIVE ONLINE TRAINING
A 6 hour Training split into 3 sessions!
May 21, 22, 23, 2019 from 1:00 pm until 3:00 pm ET

The Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC), in collaboration with key partners and funders, invites you to a Substance Use and Mental Health on Campus Engagement Event to inform a new Standard for Psychological Health and Safety for Post-Secondary Students (PSS Standard).

Yup. Me. And 7 other provincial peer support & lived experience (patient)/family (caregiver) advisers/advocates on Monday April 8th 2019.  It was very exciting to have a full 90 minutes with Hon.

Published in Pediatrics and Child Health , a Canadian Pediatrics Journal is this case report of a newborn requiring 2 months of morphine withdrawal. I have not heard of kratom from the tropical  Mitragena speciosa tree, mitragynine the likely active ingredient. In low doseage it produces a stimulant effect and at higher doses sedation and nausea. Respiratory depression is not a feature.

It is a regulated Herbal Product in the USA, but illegal to sell in Canada. There is easy internet availability however.

You’re Invited!

You’re Invited!

MFHA-Adults Who Interact with Youth: Is intended for an adult audience whose primary focus is youth (aged 14-25).  

REGISTER HERE: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ad...-tickets-52372201665

Date:

April 17, 2019 | 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM EST

Location:

Peterborough Lions Community Centre | Sisson Room
347 Burnham St.
Peterborough, ON K9H 1T5

Course Description:

How do employers effectively address substance use problems in a way that support employees' ability to thrive in the workplace and beyond?

The recent legalization of cannabis in Canada has many employers trying to find a way to quickly build or update policies to protect and maintain safe workplaces. However, it is essential to not focus solely on cannabis use when developing or amending impairment policies.

Supervising Peer Workers: A Toolkit for Implementing and Supporting Successful Peer Staff Roles in Mainstream Mental Health and Substance
Use/Addiction Organizations

Presented by Dr. Naomi Mudachi.

More details to follow.

This session will be available in-person and via webinar. To join via webinar, click on this link at the time of the event and sign in as a 'guest': http://camh.adobeconnect.com/mar15_nm/

The webinar recording will be posted here after.

Presented by Joel Lamoure, RPh, DD, FASCP, Psychopharmacology Consultant at Child and Parent Resource Institute

This free webinar will focus on building capacity for the participant in child and youth psychopharmacology. We will explore a root cause therapeutic thought process assessment tool for medication interventions. Specific medication groupings, polymorphisms and epigenetics will also be discussed to allow evidence-based medicine to be translated into evidence-based decisions for the client receiving treatment.