Snapshot
Have Your Say — Open Consultation on Updating Canada’s Low Risk Alcohol Drinking Guidelines
CCSA is seeking input from all Canadians to inform an update of Canada’s Low Risk Alcohol Drinking Guidelines. The online public consultation is open for 6 weeks until April 18, 2021.
CCSA Spotlight
Clearing the Smoke on Cannabis: Respiratory and Cardiovascular Effects of Cannabis Smoking [report]
Reviews research about the effects of smoking cannabis on the cardiovascular and respiratory systems (heart and lungs). Findings of the report include that cannabis smoke contains many of the same chemicals as tobacco smoke, emerging evidence that quitting cannabis smoking can reverse some of the n…
Event
Learn more about Webinar | Inequities Laid Bare: Responding to Challenges of COVID-19 and Beyond
Webinar | Inequities Laid Bare: Responding to Challenges of COVID-19 and Beyond
Save the date – coming soon
Time: 14:10–15:00 CET / 8:10 a.m. – 9 a.m. EST
A side event of the 64th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, CCSA has partnered with Health Canada, the Community Addictions Peer Support Association, the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition, the HIV Le…
Publication
Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Substance Use Treatment Capacity in Canada
Summarizes the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on substance use treatment and harm reduction services. Looks at how the public health response to the virus affected the capacity to deliver services, wait times for treatment, the use of virtual care platforms, substance use patterns and other aspec…
Learn more about Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Substance Use Treatment Capacity in Canada
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April 9, 2021
| Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction
FINAL WEEK: Abstracts for CCSA’s Issues of Substance 2021 are due April 12. You have 3 days left! Get your abstract in now.
April 8, 2021
| The Martlet
The Vancouver Island Drug Checking Project finds a new home
April 8, 2021
| My Powell River Now