COVID-19, Substance Use, and Safer Supply: Clinical guidance to reduce risk of infection and overdose

This webinar will provide prescribers, pharmacists, and other allied health care workers background on mitigating risks through safer supply. The COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing overdose crisis are creating compounded risks for people who use substances, including the risk for overdose and other harms related to an increasingly toxic illicit drug supply, the risk of infection […]

Stimulus connect #1 : What’s New in Harm Reduction Supply Distribution

The first Stimulus Connect What's New in Harm Reduction Supply Distribution is an opportunity to hear from folks at the Manitoba Harm Reduction Network, HIV West Yellowhead, AIDS Committee of Newfoundland and Labrador and Blood Ties Four Directions. Join others into the conversation and discuss this new COVID-19 reality. We expect this Stimulus Connect to […]

Public Health 2020

Centre des congrès RBC 375 York Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

CAHR 2020

Centre des congrès de Québec 1000, boul. René-Lévesque Est, Québec, Québec, Canada

The 29th Annual Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDS Research is the premier gathering in Canada for those working in all disciplines of HIV/AIDS research, as well as policy makers, persons living with HIV and other individuals committed to ending the pandemic.

Virtual discussion on safe supply in times of COVID-19

This virtual discussion will be the occasion to share and to learn about the advancements, challenges and opportunities around safe supply in times of COVID-19. Objectives Discuss the context of safe supply in Canada. Identify challenges. Identify the opportunities available to individuals, as well as to organizations and institutions working in the addictions and healthcare […]

Stimulus Connect #2: COVID-19: Impacts on the Drug Market

Stimulus Connect was envisioned by the Stimulus National Implementation and Planning (SNIP) Committee in response to the parallel public health emergencies of the toxic illegal drug market and Covid-19. Stimulus Connect is not just another webinar, it is an opportunity for Canadian stakeholders in harm reduction and drug policy to come together, learn and network […]

“Changing Practice, Changing Policy” BC Substance Use Conference 2020

JW Marriott Parq Vancouver Hotel 39 Smithe St, Vancouver, C.-B., Canada

Target audience: health care providers, researchers, people with lived and living experience, families impacted by substance use, policymakers, health authority partners, and community advocates Register to attend the conference: https://events.eply.com/BCCSU2020   CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Are you interested in submitting an abstract? We are now accepting abstracts for the BC Substance Use Conference! Deadline to submit: Feb […]