Coming soon!
With a group of pediatric experts from across the country, we are developing Canada’s first national guidance to improve hospital services for young people’s substance use health. Coming early 2026!
Provides key context, data, and recommendations on improving the substance use health of employees for employers and other partners (e.g., unions, associations, health professionals) in the construction industry, based on input from the focus…
Summarizes four important facts currently known about COVID-19 and how it can affect people who smoke or vape cannabis products.
This publication has been archived on the CCSA website and was current when it was published. It is available for reference or research purposes.
Summarizes key findings of the Closing the Gaps studies, specifically the legalization impact, medical use versus nonmedical use, mental and physical health effects, purchase decisions, modalities of use, polysubstance use and stigma.
Examines best practices and services that should be available to people experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, harms from opioid use. The report was developed for Health Canada’s Federal, Provincial and Territorial Treatment Task Group.…
This publication has been archived on the CCSA website and was current when it was published. It is available for reference or research purposes.
This publication has been archived on the CCSA website and was current when it was published. It is available for reference or research purposes.
Summarizes and supplements the report, Decriminalization: Options and Evidence, published in 2018. Examines key considerations to guide an evidence-based and effective approach to decriminalization. Presents various options on decriminalizing…
Presents benzodiazepine use trends and describes whether expected substance use aligned with actual substance contents. Data were collected from harm reduction sites in seven regions across Canada that participated in the Community Urinalysis and…
Highlights impacts from CCSA’s Stigma Ends with Me activities, including workshops, release of a stigma primer and other campaigns.
Uses images to illustrate that impaired driving is dangerous regardless of the vehicle you ride.
