A new study from Niki Kiepek at Dalhousie University is exploring diverse perspectives about substance use and recruiting:
- law enforcement personnel (lawyers, judges, police, probation officers, border control agents, prison guards)
- healthcare professionals

📨[email protected] for info

We're excited to share this paper which builds upon Cdn Public Health Assoc.'s recently published framework on a #publichealth approach to #substanceuse !

Read the framework here💡cpha.ca/framework-publ…

Join Cdn Public Health Assoc. next week for part 1 of a Tobacco and Vaping Webinar Series sponsored by Kenvue

'Evidence-based policies and practices in smoking cessation'

🗓️Thursday May 2nd, 11am-2pm (ET)!
✏️Register here: ow.ly/qA4u50Rh0iz

Join Cdn Public Health Assoc. for part 1 of our Tobacco and Vaping Webinar Series sponsored by Kenvue !

Thursday May 2nd, 11am-2pm (ET)!

Register: ow.ly/qA4u50Rh0iz

Made possible through an unrestricted educational grant from Kenvue Canada Inc.

Appel d'articles: La riposte de la santé publique à la crise des surdoses au Canada

Rédacteurs(trices) invités: David Moore, Elaine Hyshka Cory Neudorf, Karen Urbanoski and Rod Knight (he/him)

Date limite : 1 août 2024. Pour en savoir plus: ow.ly/ieju50R9ysa

Call for Submissions: The Public Health Response to the Overdose Crisis in Canada

Guest editors: David Moore, Elaine Hyshka, Cory Neudorf, Karen Urbanoski and Rod Knight (he/him)

Due date: 1 August 2024. Learn more: ow.ly/ieju50R9ysa

CANADIAN PUBLIC HEALTH WEEK WEBINAR

A Framework for a Public Health Approach to Substance Use

Join us Thursday 11 April 2024 | 12:00-13:00 (ET) | Register at: ow.ly/PoWb50R9mF3

#CanPHW #PublicHealthMatters

Elaine Hyshka (Elaine Hyshka), University of Alberta, highlighted key elements of a national public health response: #decriminalization , promoting interventions like opioid agonist treatment, and addressing underlying factors like like chronic pain, mental health, housing insecurity, and poverty.

The Canadian Journal of Public Health is currently soliciting research articles, reviews and correspondence related to the public health response to the toxic drug supply and current overdose crisis in Canada! 📰💡

Learn more: ow.ly/TWOM50R472b

📢Last Thursday, National Safer Supply Community of Practice members gathered together to celebrate and reflect on our work and the relationships we are growing🌳

🎶We sang, laughed, cried, celebrated our victories & made plans for the future❤️‍🔥

🔗Recording & graphic illustration⤵️
nss-aps.ca/coming-together

Curious about @cpha_acsp and CAPSA Canada's new structural stigma workshop package? 🌟🔍

Learn more about the package below and deliver the workshop yourself! 📹👇
ow.ly/KOaR50R1llE

Missed previous issues of the SURE newsletter? 📧

Catch up using our new SURE Newsletter Archive👇substanceuse.ca/sure-blog

Don't miss UVic's Marilou Gagnon joining the panel for an RSC webinar exploring findings from the 'Urgent and Long Overdue' report on Canada's drug crisis, focusing on components of a national decriminalization strategy.
March 27, 11 AM PT
Register: bit.ly/43ocWFl

📢🚀 Don't miss this very special double issue of the SURE newsletter!

🔎In it, we launch our long awaited 'Challenging Structural Substance Use Stigma Workshop Package' developed with @capsacanada!

Linked here: mailchi.mp/cpha/sure-news…

Our Royal Society of Canada report on the need for national drug decriminalization has been peer-reviewed, and is now available online in FACETS Journal.

facetsjournal.com/doi/full/10.11…

.Jackie McKay of CBC News consults with the FNHA 's Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Cornelia (Nel) Wieman on how the Toxic Drug Crisis disproportionately affects First Nations people.

Read the article here: cbc.ca/news/indigenou…

#toxicdrugcrisis #harmreduction #fnha #health