Resources to Promote Substance Use Harm Reduction

Educational materials should cater to students and reach them on the platforms they use (e.g., TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat). For example, End Overdose makes their Naloxone training, drug testing, and overdose response videos available on multiple platforms.

Other ideas for interventions, programs, and strategies can be found in the many in-depth harm reduction guides and toolkits for substance use developed by universities and health organizations. They include:

• Low-Risk Alcohol Drinking Guidelines and the Lower-Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines outline some harm reduction approaches to consuming alcohol and cannabis.
• Harm Reduction: A Guide for Campus Communities by University of Victoria
• Safer Drug Use: A Harm Reduction Guide
• Twelve Characteristics of Client-Centred Supervised Consumption Services (SCS): A toolkit for service design, delivery and evaluation
• Harm Reduction Fundamentals: A toolkit for service providers
• The US-based National Harm Reduction Coalition maintains a library of resources, toolkits, and training materials related to safer drug use
• CICMH Reducing Cannabis Harms: A Guide for Ontario Campuses

CICMH Webinars:

• Navigating Substance Use Issues and Recovery Supports in Post-secondary Institutions
• Harm Reduction with the Umbrella Project
• Managing Alcohol at Campus Events
• Cannabis Use Guidelines and Recommendations for Ontario’s Campuses
• Opioid Overdose Prevention & Harm Reduction