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‘They’ve saved a lot of lives:’ Nanaimo CSOs seeing high volume of calls for service

Adaptation Toolkit: Co-creating a Local Resource with Caregivers Supporting a Young Person with Substance Use Disorder

Provides communities the processes, considerations and tools they need to adapt the Parents Like Us: The Unofficial Survival Guide to Parenting a Young Person with a Substance Use Disorder…

Regular drug users worry about relapse, overdose amid pandemic: Report

Parents Empowering Parents celebrates two decades of help and healing

Londoners determined to follow through with dry January despite pandemic's ongoing challenges

Real Need – Real Action: CCSA Annual Report, 2016-2017

Outlines CCSA’s activities and accomplishments for the fiscal year 2016–2017. Highlights include bringing clarity to cannabis in advance of legalization, working together to solve Canada’s opioid crisis and surveying people who have recovered…

‘STEINBACH IN CRISIS’: Opioids issue needs to be handled or more will die, says grieving mother

Bankers, athletes, students are using drugs. This hotline tries to keep them safe

Cannabis à des fins médicales : une solution adaptée à chaque patient

B.C. premier directs Fraser Health to update harm-reduction portal to focus on treatment

Pas moins de 142 Québécois sont morts de froid depuis six ans

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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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