National Safer Supply Community of Practice - Discussion Tools

This link below holds a series of discussion tools from the National Safer Supply Community of Practice. This includes:   Key Messages; Prescribed Safer Supply Infographics; Presentation Slide Decks; Videos and more. Read More

This study sought to characterize overdose mortality in Toronto, a large urban centre with high overdose mortality, and to establish the spatial association between SCS locations and overdose mortality events at two timepoints.   Read More

A cost analysis study, using population level data to determine the emergency service costs avoided from emergency overdose management at supervised consumption services (SCS).   Read More

Supervised consumption sites are being implemented across Canada as one public health measure to reduce the harms associated with substance use, including overdoses and infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C (HCV). However, politically motivated attacks on supervised consumption sites have made it difficult for some policy makers and service providers to support this […]

Objectives and Scope   The objective of this environmental scan is to summarize evidence on the health and social impacts of safer supply programs. This scan will also describe local, provincial/state, national or international examples of safer supply models. Safer supply programs of interest include those that provide a predictable source of a substances as […]

Alcohol is more harmful to our health than previously known. Even at small amounts of drinking, alcohol can harm individuals in a number of ways, and is associated with a variety of acute and chronic health harms. Ontario does not have a coordinated action plan for reducing harms from alcohol use. There is an urgent […]