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Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) partnering with the City of Timmins on national summit to address impact of the substance use crisis on small- to mid-sized cities

Thursday, August 29, 2024 — In a first-of-its-kind initiative, the Timmins Summit will bring together elected leaders of small- to mid-sized municipalities, public health officials, drug policy experts, local service providers and resource industry leaders. Together they will begin developing the f…

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Summit on Family Medicine’s Role in Improving Health Outcomes for People Who Use Substances: Meeting Report

Published: 2024

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• Substance Use

• Summit-Summary-Report-Family-Physicians-Strategies-to-End-Substance-Use-Crises-en.pdf

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Call for a National Strategy to Address Gambling-Related Harms in Wake of Sports Betting Boom

Ottawa, July 2, 2024 — Recent gambling policy changes in Canada have led to increased opportunities to legally bet on sports and gamble online, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Released today, Gambling Availability and Advertising in Canada: A Call to Action looks at the impacts of legal gambling…

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Gambling Availability and Advertising in Canada: A Call to Action

Published: 2024

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• Gambling

• Gambling-Availability-and-Advertising-in-Canada-en.pdf

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A Standard THC Unit in Canada: Recommendations for Implementation

Published: 2024

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• Cannabis

• Implementing-a-StU-in-Canada-Recommendations-en.pdf

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CCSA to Increase Impact with Additional Innovation and Community-Building Capacity

Ottawa, May 30, 2024 — The Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) is pleased to welcome Karen Cumberland and Dr. Kim Corace to its executive. Together, they will reinforce CCSA’s capacity to innovate rapidly and adapt effectively to fast-moving substance use health challenges, to foc…

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National Family and Prevention Summit Report

Published: 2024

• Brief-Summary-Report-Family-Prevention-Summit-en.pdf

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Do Drugs Contain What We Think They Contain? Results from CUSP: The Community Urinalysis and Self-Report Project

Published: 2024

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• Drug Supply

• CUSP-Infographic-Do-Drugs-Contain-What-We-Think-They-Contain-en.pdf

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Canada’s Guidance on Alcohol and Health, Public Summary: Drinking Less Is Better (Poster)

Published: 2024

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• Alcohol

• Canadas Guidance on Alcohol and Health Poster 2023

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Opening Remarks Before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health By Dr. Alexander Caudarella, Chief Executive Officer Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addictions

“Mr. Chair, Vice-Chairs and Committee members, thank you for inviting the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction — or CCSA — today.

It was the late Brian Mulroney who created CCSA through an act of Parliament 35 years ago as a non-governmental, not-for-profit organization man…