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This service is currently for the former Central LHIN catchment area which includes York Region and South Simcoe-Muskoka and the north end of Toronto.  While calls outside this area will not be turned away, contacting local emergency services may be slow.  

Krasman Centre is pleased to provide

Safer Use Peer Support Line

Every night from 10pm-3am

1 888 233 5633

Never use alone

The Safer Use Peer Support Line is a support and spotting service so that you do not have to use your drugs alone.

We care.

Peer Supporters are people who have lived experience with drug use and are trained to support you.

It is a non-judgemental, confidential, toll-free phone service so that you can use more safely.

This is not about using drugs - this is about using drugs safely.

Never use alone. 

It could save your life.

A Peer Supporter can direct emergency services to you.

How it works:

Call us. Ask questions. Get comfortable.

The peer supporter will ask for your initials and date of birth, as well as where you are, what you are going to use and how you are going to take it. They will help you create a safe place. This is in case emergency services need to be called to provide naloxone or oxygen.

What will happen?

You will be spotted as you use.

You will be asked to stay on the line until you confirm that you are safe.

The call will end and no identifying information will be kept.

If emergency services have to be called due to a bad reaction or overdose, they will know exactly where to quickly find you. An overdose means you are not breathing properly. Time is critical.

The Good Samaritan Law also protects you. This law prevents Police from pressing charges related to the purchase, selling or consumption of illegal drugs when responding to an overdose call.

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Wow Dylan. This is amazing. We (Centre for Innovation in Peer Support) connect the people we serve (peers) to Krassman Centre for the after hours warm line because we know and respect the expertise and quality of peer work there.

I will ensure our staff get this flyer and that it gets networked out to our whole agency at Support House for people they may know in your area.

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Thanks, @Registered Member!

We're proud of this new program and have been getting calls almost from the start.

Please let people know that the Safer Use Peer Support Line is one way of spotting any substance use in this current 'Never Use Alone' environment.  It is not just an opioid or injection-specific program either, since the supplies of heroin, cocaine and methamphetamines have all become more unpredictable and dangerous over the past few years and especially so since the arrival of Covid19. Even before the pandemic, the majority of fatal overdoses did not involve IV use, and the number involving cocaine was rising; tragically, both these curves are holding.

Krasman Centre has continued to train people and to distribute naloxone kits, and is also working with the Harm Reduction Team at CAYR CC to distribute safer use harm reductions kits. (They have been fantastic!)

Harm Reduction is Love

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