Background Timmins is a northeastern city in Ontario with a population of around 42,000. The pandemic has caused mortality rates related...

What is the ACE Study? The adverse childhood experiences (ACE) study was a study conducted at Kaiser Permanente from 1995 to 1997. It is...

What are the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada 94 Calls to Action? These calls to action were created and published in 2015...

Addressing the Canadian opioid crisis begins with harm reduction. Every aspect of our lives is relevant to the opioid crisis and must be...

Disclaimer: Some of this is me speaking about my own experience, and some is from online sources that describe my thoughts better than I...

The catastrophic effects set in motion by the Canadian opioid epidemic will continue to disproportionately hurt those negatively affected...

If you suspect someone is having an overdose, call 9-1-1 immediately. Risk Factors for Overdose Using alone – no one to intervene or call...

People don't like to talk about death. I realized that pretty quickly after losing my dad in February 2020. The pandemic made it a lot...

Supervised consumption sites (SCS) may be referred to by various names (ex. Overdose prevention centers, supervised injection sites, etc)...

We’ve all heard some variation of toxic positivity. One definition of toxic positivity is “the overgeneralization of a happy, optimistic...

The social determinants of health (SDH) are the non-medical factors that impact our health outcomes (World Health Organization, n.d.)....

If you know me, you know how frustrated it makes me that we have evidence-informed harm reduction strategies that are not being used to...

I cannot proceed with talking about mental health on here without defining what I mean when I talk about mental health versus mental...

Disclaimer: I aim to offer suggestions for those who have been too scared to mess up that it prevents action, not tell those familiar...