Impacts of overdose on front-line harm reduction workers in the City of Toronto

Report
by
Khorasheh, Triti et al

Release Date

2021

Geography

Canada

Language of Resource

English

Full Text Available

Yes

Open Access / OK to Reproduce

No

Peer Reviewed

No

Objective

This report summarizes the impact of overdoses and overdose-related loss on harm reduction workers and strategies to address their support needs.

Findings/Key points

Ensuring harm reduction workers have adequate benefit coverage, access to external, paid forms of emotional support from therapists trained in complex trauma, and opportunities to collectively process grief and loss is urgently needed.

Design/methods

Part of the Impacts of Overdose Study

Keywords

Overdose
Wrap-around services
Social services
Workplace