CSSDP Calgary

Join us today at 11am!!!

Learn about the amazing harm reduction, substance use, and drug policy research going on from awesome speakers, including The Alberta Alliance Who Educates and Advocates Responsibly!!

Use the zoom link to join online: https://ucalgary.zoom.us/j/92280456491

OR register to join in-person: https://forms.gle/43QcbTo1db5hb7AS9

📣 UPCOMING EVENT 📣
Free Naloxone Training for UCalgary Students, Staff, and Faculty, as well as community members!

May 12th from 10-11:30AM at Health Sciences Centre on Foothills Campus!

Registration is required: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/naloxone-training-for-uofc-students-employees-and-calgary-community-tickets-329005072027

📣 UPCOMING EVENT 📣
Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy (CSSDP) Calgary is hosting a Harm Reduction, Safer Substance Use, and Drug Policy Research Showcase!!

Come join us and learn about the amazing harm reduction, substance use, and drug policy research going on at the University of Calgary. Also, hear from The Alberta Alliance Who Educates and Advocates Responsibly about their community outreach and drug testing pilot program!

May 19th from 11:00 AM-1:00 PM at Health Sciences Centre on Foothills Campus (zoom info to follow for hybrid event)

Sign up here or use the QR code on the poster: https://forms.gle/43QcbTo1db5hb7AS9

📣 UPCOMING EVENT 📣
Free Naloxone Training for UCalgary Students, Staff, and Faculty, as well as community members!

April 14th from 10-11:30AM at Health Sciences Centre on Foothills Campus!

Registration is required - link in our bio! Please note: masking is still required on Foothills Campus

Curious about opioid agonist therapy? Read below for an overview of the different treatments available!

Opioid agonist therapies: What they are and what do they do The Alberta government is expanding access to opioid agonist therapies such as methadone, suboxone, or sublocade through programs to help users quell their…

Effective drug policies and harm reduction programs require leadership and meaningful collaboration with true experts - people who use drugs 👇

As People Who Use Drugs, We Are the Safer Supply Experts—Not Physicians Safer supply saves lives. It’s that simple. People who use and sell drugs have long known this, and academic research ...

Opinion: Why Alberta's police chiefs are misguided on drug decriminalization Every day in Canada, 19 families lose a loved one to opioid poisoning. More people die this way than in motor vehicle accidents or from heart attacks. Across…

“We don’t have to go to the streets anymore to make our habit, to make money to pay for our pills. Since I’ve been on (the SOS program), I haven’t gone to jail in three and a half years. So, that’s a good thing. I’m pretty much not working (in s*x work) at all anymore, so. It saved my life,” a client said in the report.

London, Ont.-based Safer Opioid Supply Program reporting dramatic drop in overdoses among clients - London | Globalnews.ca The Safer Opioid Supply (SOS) Program, run by the London InterCommunity Health Centre is showing positive results in client retention and reduced overdoses.

"For the longest time, we said, 'Hey, learn CPR, learn first aid, maybe you'll save a life,'" said Jones. "Well, now — carry a naloxone kit, maybe you'll save a life."

Why more young Albertans are packing naloxone kits to save peers at bars and parties | CBC News When Jordan Knapp noticed a friend sitting pale, silent and sweaty on a couch at a Calgary house party, she instantly recognized an opiod overdose and used a naloxone kit to save him. She's far from the only young Albertan to carry the kits everywhere these days.

📣 Upcoming Event - Free Naloxone Training for UCalgary Students, Faculty and/or Employees 📣

December 1st from 1-2:30PM at Foothills Campus. Eventbrite registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/naloxone-training-for-uofc-students-faculty-and-employees-tickets-204139315187

Proof of full vaccinations and masking required. We will be expanding our training to include non-UCalgary community in the new year, please stay tuned!

"In some places where it was once widely available . . . there’s no he**in to be found. And they want it back, not just because it’s their drug of choice but also because its replacement—fentanyl—is killing people in droves."

Drug Users Are Nostalgic for ‘Old-School Heroin’ as Fentanyl Takes Over In many former he**in strongholds in the U.S. and Canada, the opioid is disappearing, fueling fentanyl overdoses and prompting some users to push for a renaissance.