Drug Strategy Resources

Alcohol

• Non-beverage Alcohol Consumption & Harm Reduction Trends (2017)
• Inside a Managed Alcohol Program in Thunder Bay, Ontario (2016)
• Report — Let’s Start a Conversation About Alcohol in Our Community: Report on Alcohol Use, Harms & Potential Actions in Thunder Bay District (2015)
• Executive Summary — Let’s Start a Conversation About Alcohol in Our Community (2015)
• Infographic — Let’s Start a Conversation About Alcohol in Our Community (2015)
• Alcohol Policy Recommendations for Local-Level Actions (2014)
• Canada’s Low-Risk Alcohol Drinking Guidelines Brochure (2012)

Cannabis

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

• Cannabis Talk Kit: Know How to Talk With Your Teen (2018)

• Cannabis: What Parents Guardians and Caregivers Need to Know Fact Sheet (2018)

• Health Effects of Cannabis Fact Sheet (2018)

• Cannabis Act Consultation — Response to Provincial Government (2018)
• Cannabis and Road Safety — Response to Provincial Government (2018)
• Response to the Proposed Approach to Cannabis Legalization (2018)
• Smoke-Free Ontario Act and Cannabis Consultation — Response to Provincial Government (2018)

Centre of Excellence for Addiction & Mental Health

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

Housing

• District of Thunder Bay Point-in-Time Count of People Experiencing Homelessness (2018)

• Thunder Bay Point in Time Count Data (2016)
• Drug Strategy Accommodation Needs Assessment — Community Plan (2013)
• Drug Strategy Accommodation Needs Assessment — Background Research Report (2013)

Opioids/overdose

• RAAM-COVID-19 Information Bulletin (2020)
• Northwest Region Opioid Strategy Event Report (2018)
• Opioid Use and Impacts in Thunder Bay District (2018)
• Message to Health Care Providers — Carfentanil Detected in Thunder Bay (2018)
• Opiate Drugs Overdose Information Brochure (2015)
• S.T.O.P.P. Training Poster (2014)

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)
• Recovery in Focus Fact Sheet: Methadone/Suboxone (2013)
• Recovery in Focus Fact Sheet: Concurrent Disorders (2013)

Schools and school boards

• Cannabis Practice Guide
• Cannabis — What Educators Need to Know (2018) 

• Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act 

• Overdose wallet card
• Canada's Lower-Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines (2018)
• Cannabis Talk Kit: Know How to Talk With Your Teen (2018)
• Cannabis: What Parents Guardians and Caregivers Need to Know Fact Sheet (2018)
• Health Effects of Cannabis Fact Sheet (2018)
• Info Sheet: Prescription Opioids, Including Fentanyl, What Parents and Caregivers Need to Know (2018)
• Info Sheet: Prescription Opioids, Including Fentanyl, What Educators Need to Know (2018)
• Info Sheet: What You and Your Friends Need to Know (2018)
• Trends and Promising Practices in School-based Substance Misuse Prevention — A Review of the Literature (2015)

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)

Supervised consumption services

• Supervised Consumption Posters (2018)
• Supervised Injection Services Study Information Card (2017)
• Report — Ontario Supervised Injection Services Feasibility Study (2017)
• Questions and Answers — Ontario Supervised Injection Services Feasibility Study (2016)

Violence prevention

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

Women & children

• Summary Report - Mothers Voices (May 2019)
• 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)
• Maternal Substance Use Literature Review and Environmental Scan (2015) 
• Organizational Chart Appendix 1A
• Organization Listing Appendix 1B
• Key Stakeholder Survey Appendix 2

Workplaces

• Partners in Prevention One Pager on Substance Use
• Overdose Prevention--A Toolkit for Workplaces-2019