Substance Use and Harm Reduction

Reducing the risks for HIV and hepatitis C transmission in people who use substances

Safer Substance Use Overview

• Harm reduction
• Party and play in Canada: What is its impact on gay men’s health? from Prevention in Focus, CATIE’s online prevention resource
• Harm reduction in action: Supervised consumption services and overdose prevention sites from Prevention in Focus
• Views from the front lines: Supervised consumption services and overdose prevention sites from Prevention in Focus
• Opioid agonist therapy: Does it have a role to play in helping to prevent hepatitis C and HIV? from Prevention in Focus

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Drug Information

What are the different types of drugs?

• Information on street drugs from Hepatitis C: An In-Depth Guide
• Anabolic Steroids: Roids/Slop/Juice/Sauce – Ottawa Public Health | CATIE
• Drug categories – Ontario Harm Reduction Distribution Program (OHRDP)

Understanding Substance Use Behaviours

Substance use behaviour change and HIV and hepatitis C prevention

• Injection Drug Use and HIV in Canada – a snapshot of the HIV/AIDS epidemic among injection drug users in Canada
• Understanding Addiction: A primer on drugs, drug use and drug dependence – Kingston Community Health Centres

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Safer Substance Use and Harm Reduction Programs

Developing and implementing harm reduction programs and policies

• Best Practice Recommendations for Canadian Harm Reduction Programs that Provide Service to People Who Use Drugs and are at Risk for HIV, HCV, and Other Harms – Working Group on Best Practice for Harm Reduction Programs in Canada
• Harm reduction in action: Supervised consumption services and overdose prevention sites from Prevention in Focus, CATIE’s online prevention resource
• Opioid agonist therapy: Does it have a role to play in helping to prevent hepatitis C and HIV? from Prevention in Focus
• Supervised Consumption Services Operational Guidance – British Columbia Centre on Substance Use
• Implementing Supervised Injection Services – Registered Nurses Association of Ontario
• Drug Checking as a Harm Reduction Intervention – British Columbia Centre on Substance Use
• Indigenous harm reduction = Reducing the harms of colonialism – Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN) | Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development (ICAD)

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Tattoos and Piercings

Reducing the risks of HIV and hepatitis C transmission related to tattoos and piercings

• Safer tattooing and piercing
• Staying Healthy Behind the Walls: Tattooing, Piercing and You – Prisoners' HIV/AIDS Support Action Network (PASAN) | CATIE

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