Organization:
First Nations Health Authority – Indigenous Wellness Team
Publication date: 2018
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
Insights into 5 myths (and facts) about addiction.
Organization:
First Nations Health Authority – Indigenous Wellness Team
Publication date: 2018
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
Covers frequently asked questions relating to overdose prevention including information about opiods, signs of an overdose, the materials (e.g. naloxone) and support available, steps to take during an overdose, and where to find additional resources.
Organization:
First Nations Health Authority – Indigenous Wellness Team
Publication date: 2018
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
Substance use can be difficult topic to discuss with family, friends, colleagues, strangers and often those closest to us. This information sheets provides some useful guidelines for having these discussions.
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
“The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network submits this briefing to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in advance of its review of the periodic report of Canada, held during its 93rd session from July 31 to August 25, 2017. “The Legal Network has...
Organization:
Canadian Public Health Association
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Guideline or manual
CPHA and the Calgary Sexual Health Centre developed the content for three workshops focused on the reduction of STBBI-related stigma. You can download the workshop resources, including a facilitation manual, a participant workbook and the presentation slides, to help...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
The public health and human rights rationale for prison-based needle and syringe programs Programs that ensure access to sterile injecting equipment are an important component of a comprehensive approach to reducing the vulnerability of prisoners to HIV and HCV...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
“We, the undersigned, write to you respecting the recent passage into law of Bill C-37, An Act to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and to make related amendments to other Acts. As you well know, the intent of this law is to facilitate the scaling up of...
Organization:
Canadian Public Health Association
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Guideline or manual
CPHA and the Calgary Sexual Health Centre developed the content for three workshops focused on the reduction of STBBI-related stigma. You can download the workshop resources, including a facilitation manual, a participant workbook and the presentation slides, to help...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Canada is in urgent need of comprehensive harm reduction policy that jettisons the failed, costly model of drug prohibition that has ravaged so many lives, from fueling the spread of HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV), to contributing to over-incarceration, to creating...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Booklet
In Canada, Indigenous people experience higher rates of injection drug use and less access to health care than non-Indigenous people. For many Indigenous people, drug use offers a means of coping with traumatic life circumstances, including those related to their...
