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Leading Practices in Dealing with the Opioid Crisis
Canada’s opioid crisis continues to have devastating impacts on the health and well-being of Canadians. Tackling this public health emergency requires commitment from all affected parties from the Provincial/Territorial and Federal governments to front-line practitioners and first responders. HealthCareCAN is committed to doing everything it can to contribute to the collaborative response to one of the biggest public health threats facing Canada.
Our members leading the charge
Regina council to address addictions crisis with talks of city-wide harm reduction strategy
October 29, 2020
Canadian researchers to develop first national database on effectiveness of medical cannabis
July 20, 2020
An epidemic within a pandemic: How Thunder Bay Ont., health care professionals are managing the opioid crisis
June 22, 2020
Sask. Health Authority to take 'all hands on deck' approach to opioid therapy physician shortage: minister
May 2, 2019
Amy Ma and Dr. Susan Sutherland: There are safer alternatives to opioids after wisdom-teeth removal
January 12, 2019
Dealing with the opioids crisis – A view from the ground
As part of the Joint Statement of Action to Address the Opioid Crisis, HealthCareCAN is presenting this webinar to profile select leading practices in harm reduction, prevention and surveillance with the goal of facilitating their scale and spread.
Background information
Responding to the Opioid Crisis: Leading Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities – proceedings of HealthCareCAN’s Ministerial Roundtable on Opioids, 2017
Responding to the Opioid Crisis: Leading Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities
A Summary of the Ministerial Roundtable on Opioids
This document contains input from over 20 HealthCareCAN members and partners on critical aspects of a national response to the opioid crisis, including:
- Leading practices in harm reduction, prevention and surveillance, and treatment with opportunity for national scale and spread,
- Challenges unique to the hospital and health region sector, and
- Commitments and/or actions that HealthCareCAN members and partners could take to help mitigate the opioid crisis.
Addressing the opioid challenge on a go-forward basis – potential actions by HealthCareCAN members:
HealthCareCAN is committed to doing everything it can to contribute to the collaborative response to the opioid crisis. HealthCareCAN is proud to be a signatory of the Joint Statement of Action to Address the Opioid Crisis. As a signatory, HealthCareCAN has made the following commitments