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Action for Safer Supply - People Who Use Drugs Working Group

Purpose: As a working group composed exclusively of people who use drugs, Action for Safer Supply advocates for expanded access to safer supply for people who use drugs across the country.

Completed activities: Recently, the working group developed and designed the Safer Supply, Opioid Agonist Treatment & Harm Reduction: National Advocacy Toolkit - now available online and for download. They also ran a three-day anti-shame campaign leading up to World AIDS Day 2022 on December 1st called #NoShameNovember30 - learn more here!

Publications

5 Ways to Take Action for Safer Supply

Safer Supply, Opioid Agonist Treatment & Harm Reduction: National Advocacy Toolkit

Safe Supply: Concept Document

In Our Resource Library

My Treatment, My Choice

Substance Use Related Language & Stigma

Past Hot Topic Webinars

Urine Drug Screening Workshop

Harm Reduction, Safer Supply & Experiences of Pre- and Peri-Natal Care

Urine Drug Screenings: Science and Implications on the Lives of People Who Use Drugs

Wound Care Workshop for Non-Clinicians

Problems with Medicalized Safer Supply

Expert Panel of People Who Use Drugs