Drug Strategy Resources

Alcohol

• Non-beverage Alcohol Consumption & Harm Reduction Trends (2017) Available upon request.
• Inside a Managed Alcohol Program in Thunder Bay, Ontario (2016) Available upon request.
• Report — Let’s Start a Conversation About Alcohol in Our Community: Report on Alcohol Use, Harms & Potential Actions in Thunder Bay District (2015) Available upon request.
• Let’s Start a Conversation About Alcohol in Our Community
• Alcohol Policy Recommendations for Local-Level Actions (2014)
• Canada’s Low-Risk Alcohol Drinking Guidelines 

Cannabis

• Cannabis — What Educators Need to Know 
• Thunder Bay Drug Strategy Recreational Cannabis Brochure (2018) Available upon request.
• Canada's Lower-Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines 

• Cannabis - Know How to Talk With Your Teen 

• Cannabis: What Parents Guardians and Caregivers Need to Know 

• Health Effects of Cannabis Facts

Centre of Excellence for Addiction & Mental Health

Visit our dedicated webpage for the Northwestern Centre of Excellence to learn more.

Housing 

• Thunder Bay Point in Time Count Data (2016) Available upon Request.
• Drug Strategy Accommodation Needs Assessment — Background Research Report (2013) Background and plan are available upon request.

Opioids/overdose

• Northwest Region Opioid Strategy Event Report (2018) Available upon request.
• Opioid Use and Impacts in Thunder Bay District (2018) Available upon request.

Recovery

• Recovery in Focus Memoirs Video — Dana (2015)
• Recovery in Focus Memoirs Video — Emylee (2015)
• Recovery in Focus Memoirs Video — Josh (2015)
• Recovery in Focus Memoirs Video — Melissa (2015)
• Recovery in Focus Fact Sheet: Harm Reduction (2013) Available upon request.
• Recovery in Focus Fact Sheet: Methadone/Suboxone (2013) Available upon request.
• Recovery in Focus Fact Sheet: Concurrent Disorders (2013) Available upon request.

Schools and school boards

• Cannabis Practice Guide
• Cannabis — What Educators Need to Know 
• Overdose wallet card
• Canada's Lower-Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines 
• Cannabis Talk: Know How to Talk With Your Teen 
• Cannabis: What Parents Guardians and Caregivers Need to Know 
  
• Health Effects of Cannabis
• Prescription Opioids, Including Fentanyl, What Parents and Caregivers Need to Know 
• Prescription Opioids, Including Fentanyl, What Educators Need to Know 
  
• What You and Your Friends Need to Know 
• Trends and Promising Practices in School-based Substance Misuse Prevention — A Review of the Literature (2015) Available upon request. 

Substance use trends

• Check In 2012-2016: A Closer Look at Substance Use & Related Harms in Thunder Bay (2017)
• An Environmental Scan — Issues, Impacts and Interconnections of Substance Use: A background paper for the Thunder Bay Drug Strategy Project (2010) Available upon request.

Supervised consumption services

• Report — Ontario Supervised Injection Services Feasibility Study (2017)

Violence prevention

• Community Perspectives and Perceptions on Violence, Impacts and Prevention Opportunities (2017)
• Infographic — Community Perspectives on Violence (2017)

Women & children

• Summary Report - Mothers Voices (May 2019) Available upon request.
• Healthy Outcomes for You and Your Baby - Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (April 2018)
• Issues, Impacts & Services for Women Who Use Substances and Pregnant or Parenting (2015) Available upon request.
• Maternal Substance Use Literature Review and Environmental Scan (2015) Available upon request.
• Organizational Chart Appendix 1A - Available upon request.
• Organization Listing Appendix 1B - Available upon request.
• Key Stakeholder Survey Appendix 2 - Available upon request with above document - Issues, Impacts & Services for Women Who Use Substances and Pregnant or Parenting.

Workplaces

• Overdose Prevention