CCSA is pleased to host Drug Checking Office Hours — virtual, one-hour, drop-in calls where experts from the National Drug Checking Working Group will provide guidance, answer questions and share resources on drug checking in Canada.
Sign up to join us on Microsoft Teams on the second Tuesday of each month from 1 to 2 p.m. ET for direct access to experts in policy, research, community engagement, technical support, training and more. You can drop in on as many monthly calls as you like!
Get to know our experts listed below and review the meeting schedule.
Meet the Drug Checking Office Hours Experts
Antoine Marcheterre (he/him)
Interior Health
- Expertise
- Data management and communication
- Service development, implementation or evaluation
- Technical
- Training
- Location: British Columbia
- Language: English and French
Courtney Harrop (she/her)
Tla’amin Nation
- Expertise
- Community engagement including people with lived and living experience
- Service development, implementation or evaluation
- Policy and advocacy
- Technical
- Training
- Location: British Columbia
- Language: English
David Byres (he/they)
British Columbia Centre on Substance Use
- Expertise
- Community engagement including people with lived and living experience
- Data management and communication
- Diversity, inclusion and equity
- Policy and advocacy
- Research
- Service development, implementation or evaluation
- Technical
- Training
- Location: British Columbia
- Language: English
Chris Gill (he/him)
Vancouver Island University; University of Victoria
- Expertise
- Service development, implementation or evaluation
- Technical
- Research
- Location: British Columbia
- Language: English
Jean-Philippe Bergeron (he/him)
Dopamine
- Expertise
- Service development, implementation or evaluation
- Technical
- Training
- Location: Quebec
- Language: English and French
Jen Angelucci (she/her)
British Columbia Centre on Substance Use
- Expertise
- Community engagement including people with lived and living experience
- Data management and communication
- Technical
- Research
- Location: British Columbia
- Language: English
Justine Bizier (she/her/they/them)
Spectre de rue
- Expertise
- Community engagement including people with lived and living experience
- Service development, implementation or evaluation
- Technical
- Training
- Location: Quebec
- Language: English and French
Lauren Airth (she/her)
University of British Columbia Okanagan Harm Reduction Team; University of British Columbia’s Hein Lab; Substance at University of Victoria
- Expertise
- Community engagement including people with lived and living experience
- Diversity, inclusion and equity
- Policy and advocacy
- Research
- Service development, implementation or evaluation
- Location: British Columbia
- Language: English
Mia Pohl (they/them)
British Columbia Centre on Substance Use
- Expertise
- Community engagement including people with lived and living experience
- Service development, implementation or evaluation
- Technical
- Location: British Columbia
- Language: English
Nazlee Maghsoudi (she/her)
Centre on Drug Policy Evaluation
- Expertise
- Community engagement including people with lived and living experience
- Data management and communication
- Funding
- Policy and advocacy
- Research
- Location: Ontario
- Language: English
Thomas Laughton (he/him)
Saskatchewan Health Authority
- Expertise
- Community engagement including people with lived and living experience
- Diversity, inclusion and equity
- Technical
- Training
- Location: Saskatchewan
- Language: English
Will McLellan (he/him)
Mountain Harm Reduction Society
- Expertise
- Community engagement including people with lived and living experience
- Data management and communication
- Policy and advocacy
- Research
- Service development, implementation or evaluation
- Technical
- Training
- Location: British Columbia
- Language: English
Drug Checking Office Hours Schedule
- Tuesday, January 21: Courtney, Justine, Nazlee (English and French)
- Tuesday, February 11: Chris, Jen, Mia and Will (English)
- Tuesday, March 11: Antoine, Jean-Philippe and Justine (French)
- Tuesday, April 8: David, Thomas and Will (English)
- Tuesday, May 13: Courtney, Mia and Jean-Philippe (English and French)
- Tuesday, June 10: Chris, David and Nazlee (English)
- Tuesday, July 8: Courtney, Jen and Justine (English and French)
- Tuesday, August 12: Chris, Nazlee and Thomas (English)
- Tuesday, September 9: Antoine, Jean-Philippe and Justine (French)
- Tuesday, October 14: David, Thomas and Mia (English)
- Wednesday, November 12: Lauren, Nazlee and Jean-Philippe (English and French)
- Tuesday, December 9: Jen, Will and Courtney (English)