Substance Use and Harm Reduction
Reducing the risks for HIV and hepatitis C transmission in people who use substances
Contents
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
Websites
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)
Websites
- Drug info – The TRIP! Project
- Safer sex and safer drug use – Toward the Heart
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
More on behavioural change interventions
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)
More on safer substance use and harm reduction
Websites
- Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
- Canadian drugs and substances strategy – Government of Canada
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
