Resource Page Resources for Active Users
Learn More:
2023 Updated Model of Decriminalization Drugs For Personal Use
Review of the Harms Caused by the Disproportionate Impact of Drug Criminalization on African, Caribbean, and Black People in Toronto
Toronto Overdose Prevention and Response Report
Other Resources:
An Emerging Evidence Brief on Prescribed Safer Supply and Client Experiences
Learn About CATIE: healthcare and community-based service providers with the latest science, and promote good practices for prevention and treatment programs.
Learn more about addiction and mental health
Learn more about abolition
From Toronto Public Health:
Prefer Podcasts? Try These Out!
The Crackdown Podcast: All Episodes
Crackdown is a monthly podcast about drugs, drug policy and the drug crisis, created by drug user activists and supported by evidence-based research.
Want to help local Toronto organizations in the movement? Donate Here!
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The Toronto Overdose Prevention Society fund will support and to draw attention to the escalating overdose epidemic. Overdose Action Toronto consists of key stakeholders in harm reduction, this includes people who use drugs, peers, frontline harm reduction workers and advocates.
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The Indigenous Harm Reduction Winter Survival Fund strives to reduce the disproportionate harm and burden Indigenous people face with stigmatized experiences such as substance use, houselessness, and incarceration.
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PASAN is a place where prisoners matter where they support and advocate FOR communities disproportionately impacted by incarceration, focusing on prison health, harm reduction, HIV and hepatitis C
Resources for Active Users
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Find where to dispose of your used supplies safely and find harm reduction programs: https://ohrdp.ca/find-supplies/
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Learn about what is in Toronto's drug supply: https://drugchecking.community/
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The Trip! Project is a youth-led harm reduction health information service for the dance music scene and youth who use drugs. https://tripproject.ca/about-us/
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Toronto Indigenous Harm Reduction emerged during the COVID-19 Pandemic to support the basic needs of Indigenous people: https://www.facebook.com/TorontoIndigenousHarmReduction/
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Drug Help Line: Access Center for Addiction and Mental Health, call 416-535-8501.
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Online:
In Person:
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Syme Woolner Community Center: Offers “Jane’s Drop in” Services (they target homelessness, harm reduction, addiction and mental health programs). Visit Website.
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Parkdale Queen West Community Health Center: offers harm reduction programs through websites, supervised consumption service locations, hep c programs, harm reduction rooms, satellite programs, anonymous HIV testing, and KAPOW which is harm reduction-based, sex-positive, trans-inclusive, peer-supported drop-in program. Visit Website.
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South Riverdale Community Health Center: They offer support for drug users who require primary care, supervised consumption, sterile supplies, naloxone, referrals to addiction/mental health services, counselling, wound care, and outreach clinics. They also have women-specific, transgender and sex work inclusive and specific programs. Visit Website.
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The Works: Offers harm reduction supplies, counselling, opioid substitution clinics, iOAT + POINT Programs, supervised injection sites, nursing services, drug checking street outreach, discarding needles, drug alerts, and a range of other resources). Visit Website.
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Unison Health and Community Services: Provides overview of harm reduction programs and directs to open clinics that are offering them. Visit Website.
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Sherbourne Health: Offers priority programs specific for 2SLGBTQ, new comers to canada, and homeless for harm reduction, have podcast, articles, and DO offer large variety of health services. Visit Website
Events Currently Being Offered:
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Unison Health and Community Service Take Out Lunch - Thursdays from 11:30-1 pm.
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they offer a nutritious lunch, but the program also offers workshops on harm reduction, employment preparation, kitchen knowledge, healthy eating and lifestyle. Learn More
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The Sherbourne Health Bus - offers medical care, community support and services, harm reduction resources, and supplies for everyday living. Read April 2024 Schedule Here