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Resources
Infographic | 2024
About PWUD, Crime, Fentanyl, Hospitals, Injecting drugs, Mental health, Overdose, Safer supply, Small/medium cities, Stimulants, Wrap-around services
This report focuses on participant experiences of the Peterborough Safer Supply Program (SSP ).
Report | 2024
About PWUD, Advocacy, Carries/take-home doses, Diversion, Harm reduction, Hospitals, Housing, Illegal drugs, Indigenous, Injecting drugs, Mental health, Overdose, Safer supply, Small/medium cities, Stimulants, Withdrawal, Wrap-around services
This Health Canada funded project is called “Embedding a Safer Supply Program (SSP) in a Smaller Urban Community” and represents a unique opportunity to pilot Safer Supply in a small city of approx
Report | 2024
About PWUD, Advocacy, Barriers and enablers, Diversion, Fentanyl, Harm reduction, Housing, Illegal drugs, Injecting drugs, Mental health, Overdose, Opioids, Safer supply, Small/medium cities, Stigma, Stimulants, Wrap-around services
This report presents an overview of the Safer Supply Ottawa program, as well as the results of a Safer Stimulant Supply program evaluation conducted in the spring and summer of 2024.
Report | 2024
About PWUD, Advocacy, Barriers and enablers, Carries/take-home doses, Fentanyl, Housing, Harm reduction, Illegal drugs, Mental health, Opioids, Overdose, Safer supply, Stimulants, Substitution/OAT, Wrap-around services, Withdrawal
This commentary is concerned with buprenorphine treatment for individuals with opioid use disorder in the fentanyl era.
Commentary | 2025
Barriers and enablers, Illegal drugs, Overdose, Policy/Regulatory, Stimulants, Substitution/OAT, Withdrawal, Treatment/recovery
Report | 2025
Benzodiazepines, Drug checking, Illegal drugs, Opioids, Overdose, Stimulants, Xylazine
This paper describes the results of retrospective Safer Stimulant Supply program medical chart reviews.
Original research | 2025
Advocacy, Harm reduction, Housing, Illegal drugs, Injecting drugs, Safer supply, Social benefits, Stimulants, Wrap-around services
This is a practice brief specific to AVI Health & Community Services prescribed alternatives program and service model in British Columbia.
Brief | 2025
Advocacy, Barriers and enablers, Harm reduction, Opioids, Overdose, Policy/Regulatory, Safer supply, Stigma, Stimulants, Substitution/OAT, Wrap-around services
To determine how human brain network changes relate to subjective and lasting effects of psychedelics.
Original research | 2024
Hallucinogens/psychedelics, Mental health, Stimulants
From August 2022 until October 2023, the Drug User Liberation Front [DULF] operated a drug compassion club [CC], which sells drugs of known composition and purity without medical oversight.
Original research | 2024
About PWUD, Advocacy, Barriers and enablers, Drug checking, Harm reduction, Illegal drugs, Mortality, Opioids, Overdose, Peer/PWLLE program involvement, Safer supply, Stimulants
Polysubstance use is highly prevalent among persons who use cocaine; however, little is known about how alcohol and cannabis are used with cocaine.
Original research | 2024
About PWUD, Alcohol, Cannabis, Illegal drugs, Stimulants
This study aims were to describe trends in accidental stimulant toxicity deaths and to characterize demographic characteristics of decedents and the circumstances surrounding death.
Original research | 2025
About PWUD, Harm reduction, Illegal drugs, Mortality, Opioids, Overdose, Peer/PWLLE program involvement, Stimulants
The Government of Ontario has announced plans to close five of 10 sites in Toronto by March 2025, and another site is likely to close after its lease expires.
Report | 2024
Advocacy, Barriers and enablers, Harm reduction, Injecting drugs, Opioids, Policy/Regulatory, SCS/OPS, Stimulants
Contingency management (CM) is the most effective treatment for reducing methamphetamine use.
Original research | 2024
About prescribers, Illegal drugs, Outcomes, Stimulants, Substitution/OAT, Withdrawal
This paper discusses how fentanyl and the toxic drug supply complicates hospital Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) care.
Lit review | 2024
About prescribers, Clinical guidance, Harm reduction, Hospitals, Illegal drugs, Opioids, Overdose, Stimulants, Substitution/OAT, Transitions in care/treatment, Withdrawal, Wrap-around services
Guide or handbook | 2024
About PWUD, Barriers and enablers, Cannabis, Crime, Equity, Harm reduction, Housing, Illegal drugs, Injecting drugs, Legal system/law enforcement, Mental health, Opioids, Overdose, Poverty, Sex/Gender , Stimulants, Workplace
To develop an individual-level prediction tool for risk of return to use in opioid use disorder.
Original research | 2023
Illegal drugs, Outcomes, Opioids, Substitution/OAT, Stimulants, Return to use, Treatment/recovery
This personal view paper summarises substantial gaps in our understanding of opioid withdrawal that are likely to continue to limit major advancements in its treatment.
Perspective | 2024
Illegal drugs, Opioids, Stimulants, Substitution/OAT, Withdrawal
Drugs sold on cryptomarkets are thought to have lower levels of adulteration and higher strength compared with those sourced off-line.
Original research | 2024
Drug checking, Illegal drugs, Hallucinogens/psychedelics, Stimulants
The Community Urinalysis and Self-Report Project (CUSP) is a low-barrier sentinel surveillance system developed to better understand use of drugs from the unregulated supply.
Report | 2024
About PWUD, Benzodiazepines, Drug checking, Illegal drugs, Injecting drugs, Opioids, Stimulants
