Professional Development

L’Association québécoise des centres d’intervention en dépendance (AQCID) [Only available in French]
The AQCID coordinates, mobilizes and supports nearly 120 non-profit community organizations working in addiction and substance use.

Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC) Response to Opioid Crisis
Health Canada’s Substance Use and Addiction Program (SUAP) funded the AFMC, in partnership with Canada’s 17 medical schools, to create a national, bilingual, comprehensive, and competency-based curriculum for medical graduates, residents and practicing physicians interested in pain management and substance use.

British Columbia Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU)

BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC)
Provides provincial and national leadership in disease surveillance, detection, treatment, prevention and consultation.

Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) – Resources Related to the Opioid Crisis
Resources to educate and support efforts to prevent harms from opioid use.  

Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) – Substance Use and the Workplace: Supporting Employers and Employees in the Trades [toolkit]

Canadian Drug Policy Coalition (CDPC)
Founded in 2010, the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition is a national policy organization that works in collaboration with more than 60 groups and 7,000 individuals to support the development of drug policy for Canada that is informed by evidence, public health and human rights. 

Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Matters (CRISM) 

Canadian Pain Task Force Resource Page
A list of online resources for people living with pain

Canadian Substance Use Resource and Knowledge Exchange Centre (SURE) – a curated site of tools and resources that support communities in implementing a public health approach to substance use. 

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
CAMH provides a wide range of clinical care services for patients of all ages and families, with Access CAMH as your centralized point of contact.

Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux (CIUSSS) du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal
Équipe de soutien clinique et organisationnel en dépendance et itinérance (ESCODI)

Certificate in Mental Health and Addictions for Nurse Practitioners (Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto)

Communications toolkit for employers of men in trades
Employers of men in trades can use this toolkit to talk to their employees about substance use and addiction.

Community Addictions Peer Support Association (CAPSA)
CAPSA supports all pathways to increased substance use health. CAPSA provides stigma education and person first language training services. CAPSA strives to empower individuals impacted by substance use disorders by providing opportunities to integrate into the broader community through peer support initiatives and community engagement projects. 

The Drug Resource and Education Project 
Provides practical guidance on best practices for performing drug checking in regards to harm reduction, service implementation and messaging in a variety of settings (e.g., festival or community settings).

Families for Addiction Recovery (FAR) 
Families for Addiction Recovery (FAR) is a national charity founded by parents of children who have struggled with addiction from their teens. We offer parent-to-parent support: one on one, in a group setting or via a live support line across Canada. 

Get Help Here: Mental health support – Canada.ca
Find mental health and substance use support near you.

Health Canada – Opioids
Information about opioids, effects of opioids, overdoses, stigma, naloxone, and substance use disorder

Health Canada – Interactive map: Canada’s response to the opioid crisis
Use this map to find locations of opioid-related activities taking place in communities across Canada in the areas of prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and enforcement.

Health Infobase: Opioid- and Stimulant-related Harms in Canada
The most recent available data on overdoses and deaths involving opioids and/or stimulants.

Hope for Wellness Helpline
The Hope for Wellness Help Line offers immediate mental health counselling and crisis intervention to all Indigenous peoples across Canada. Call the toll-free Help Line at 1-855-242-3310, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Island Health
Mental Health and Substance Use and Overdose Prevention services and resources

Men in trades: the opioid overdose crisis in Canada
Impacts of substance use on men in trades, ways to reduce stigma and substance use harms, and how to get help with substance use.

META:PHI
META:PHI supports the delivery of high-quality care for people across Ontario who use substances through advocacy, education, networking, and guideline development, as well as RAAM clinic oversight.

Moms Stop the Harm (MSTH)
Moms Stop the Harm is a network of Canadian families impacted by substance-use related harms and deaths. MSTH provides peer support to grieving families and those with loved ones who use or have used substances.

National Overdose Response Service (NORS)  
NORS is an overdose prevention hotline for Canadians providing loving, confidential, nonjudgmental support for you, whenever and wherever you use drugs. Call (Canada only): 1-888-688-NORS (6677)  

The National Safer Supply Community of Practice (NSS-CoP)
A knowledge exchange initiative led by London InterCommunity Health Centre, in partnership with the Canadian Association of People who Use Drugs and the Alliance for Healthier Communities. Its goal is to scale up safer supply programs across Canada.

Ontario Construction Consortium (OCC) 
The OCC launched a public information campaign – Opioid Crisis: The Other Pandemic – that urges construction workers to take steps to safeguard their health and safety. 

Ontario Drug Policy Research Network (ODPRN)
The ODPRN established the Ontario Opioid Drug Observatory with the goal of bringing together knowledge users, researchers and data to inform and evaluate opioid policy across Ontario.

PAWSitive Connections Lab
These evidence-based initiatives include the campus PAWS Your Stress therapy dog program, online mental health & substance use training for Service Dog trainers, the prison PAWSitive Support Canine Assisted Learning Program.

Public Health Agency of Canada – Data, surveillance and research on opioids and other substances
This page provides links to the evidence guiding our response to the overdose crisis. 

Starlings Community
A community of peers, caregivers, and allies that support the hope and healing of young people affected by the stress and stigma of a parent’s substance use. 

St John Ambulance Canada
Visit the website to learn more about the virtual Opioid Poisoning Response Training e-learning course, available free of charge to all Canadians, as well as other opioid-focus resources.

Tailgate Toolkit
The Tailgate Toolkit Project is an innovative program aimed at increasing access to harm reduction services and ideas for those working in the construction industry.

Thunderbird Partnership Foundation 
Thunderbird Partnership Foundation supports a variety of initiatives that advocate for First Nations culturally based substance use and mental wellness services. Thunderbird’s vision is to cultivate and empower relationships that connect us to our cultural strengths and identity within wholistic and healthy communities. Thunderbird is a leading authority on Indigenous addictions and mental wellness research. 

Toronto’s Drug Checking Service

Sign up to receive reports, alerts, and other information on Toronto’s unregulated drug supply.

Urgent Public Health Need Sites (UPHNS) Community of Practice HUB  
A place where knowledge and information on harm reduction, Urgent Public Health Need Sites (UPHNS), and COVID-19 can be shared across Canada.

Workers for Ethical Substance Use Policy (WESUP)
Provides support to workers who are subjected to harmful workplace substance use policy, and advocates for workplace substance use policy reform.

WHY SCS
This Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse (CRISM) project team works with substance use researchers, people with lived and/or living experience of substance use, and healthcare providers to provide accurate information about supervised consumption services (SCS) in Canada.