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Healthcare professionals warn of 'echo' pandemic as Canadians' mental health suffers

Using cannabis while pregnant can affect placenta, stress, anxiety, development in children: study

A Store Selling Heroin, Meth, and Cocaine Just Opened in Canada

Drogue du viol: le fléau silencieux du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean

Virtual 'spotting' could help keep drug users safe during COVID-19, U of T researchers say

Campus wellbeing survey shows how Sask. post-secondary students are responding to pandemic

La vérification d’identité fait dégriser les vendeurs de cannabis en ligne de l’Alberta

Trusted Insight. Transformative Action. 2024–2025 Annual Report

Outlines CCSA’s activities in fiscal year 2024-2025 and provides the auditor’s report. It highlights different ways we were recognized as a trustworthy expert – an honest broker in polarized times – and called upon to inform substance use health…

Alberta government to overhaul health care delivery [Subscription]

When it Comes to Substance Use Disorders Words Matter [infographic]

Illustrates that stigmatizing language can act as a barrier to recovery from substance use disorders. This infographic notes that substance use disorder is not a choice and should be treated like any health condition.

Forced into treatment

Regina needs 24 cannabis stores to disrupt black market: city report

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CCSA's Issues of Substance Conference

This biannual, national conference brings together people from across the country, including addiction workers, healthcare professionals, researchers, policy makers, and people with lived and living experience
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Canadian Substance Use Costs and Harms

This project provides comparable and up-to-date data on the costs and harms of substance use in Canada and allows people to explore and analyze the data through its data visualization tool.
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Workforce Competencies

CCSA developed measurable technical and behaviour competencies in knowledge, skills and values for the substance use workforce, providing consistent care across the wide range of settings.
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Drink Less Live More

Canada has new guidance on alcohol and your health. CCSA wants you to be able to make the most informed decisions you can about drinking alcohol.
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Lower Risk Gambling Guidelines

Learn about the world’s first Lower-Risk Gambling Guidelines to help people in Canada make informed decisions about their gambling and lessen their risk of gambling-related harms. Use the Interactive Risk Assessment Tool to assess your personal gambling choices.
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The Highway Home

This interactive website takes an experiential approach to increasing youth’s and young drivers’ awareness of the risks and harms of drug-impaired driving, using real-life scenarios involving cannabis use and driving.
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