Substance Use and Harm Reduction
Reducing the risks for HIV and hepatitis C transmission in people who use substances
Contents
Safer Substance Use Overview
- Making drug use safer from Pre-fix, CATIE’s comprehensive new guide to living with Hep C or HIV for people who inject drugs
- Tips for Preventing Overdoses – Queen West Central Toronto Toronto Community Health Centre | CATIE
- Harm reduction as a tool to healthy living from Managing your health, CATIE’s guide for people living with HIV
- Harm reduction
- Harm Reduction and Currently Illegal Drugs: Implications for Nursing Policy, Practice, Education and Research – Canadian Nurses Association (CNA)
Drug Information
What are the different types of drugs?
- Information on street drugs from Hepatitis C: An In-Depth Guide
- Drug info – The TRIP! Project
- Anabolic Steroids: Roids/Slop/Juice/Sauce – Ottawa Public Health | CATIE
More on street drugs and other substances
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: Part 1 – Working Group on Best Practice for Harm Reduction Programs in Canada
- 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: Part 2 – 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, CATIE’s online prevention resource
- 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
More on safer substance use and harm reduction
Websites
- Canadian Harm Reduction Network – a virtual meeting place for individuals and organizations dedicated to reducing the social, health and economic harms associated with drugs and drug policies
- Injecting drugs, drug users, HIV and AIDS – Avert
- Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
- National Anti-Drug 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
- Tattooers and Piercers: Protect your clients and yourself against HIV and hepatitis B and C – Ministry of Health and Social Services of Quebec
- Tattoos and Piercing... Protecting yourself from AIDS, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C – Ministry of Health and Social Services of Quebec
