Presentations
Check out some of the presentations we’ve done across the country!
“The success of your presentation will be judged not by the knowledge you send but by what the listener receives.”
Safer supply implementation challenges and their impact on sustainability and client outcomes
Presenter: Natasha Touesnard & Dr. Dan Werb
Event: Health Canada Knowledge Exchange Series
Date: October 27th, 2022
Moving Safe Supply Forward: The Need for Decriminalisation and Demedicalised Models of Safe Supply
Presenters: Matthew Bonn
Date: October 20th, 2022
Safe Supply in Demand
We strive to reduce oppressive societal conditions that people who currently or formerly use drugs face and emphasize the need for our direct involvement in public policy decision making. We focus on the strengths, talents, and merits of our membership as we build a better future for people who use drugs.
Presenter: Natasha Touesnard
Conference: CSAM
Date: November 10, 2020
CIHR Safe Supply Nova Scotia Policy Meeting
Presenters: Brianna Cheng, Dr. Claire Bodkin, Matt Bonn, Candis Lepage, Matthew Herder, Dr. Leah Genge, Dr. Tommy Brothers, Dr. Daniel Werb, Natasha Touesnard, Sheila Wildeman, Dr. Ayden Scheim, Michael Pugliese, Emilie Comeau
Date: November 2nd and 3rd, 2020
Change at Last
It took a global pandemic for many of us to be trusted with take-homes. This is a call designed by methadone patients and MAT advocates FOR methadone patients, to discuss lasting methadone reform and what we can do to become engaged in our rights and our future. Methadone is a valid recovery and harm reduction path, and it's time to focus on the positives.
Presenter: Matthew Bonn
Conference: Change at Last
Date: June 9th
Drug Market Trends
The presentation is based on CAPUD’s Drug Market Survey that collected information on various aspects and changes to the illegal drug supply. Participants were asked what the biggest change in the drug supply from their perspective has been? Availability, accessibility, potency and/or price and more…
Presenter: Natasha Touesnard
Event: Stimulus Connect
Date: May 26, 2020
Canada’s Escalating Deadly & Unreliable Drug Market
CAPUD created a Google Survey to find out what was happening on the ground in regards to the current drug market. We launched the survey to our members looking for participants and then had an option for follow up discussion with willing participants to get more information.
Presenter: Matt Bonn
Webinar: CCSA
Date: August 17, 2020
Community Activism in Harm Reduction
This a presentation that was presented for multiple different schools including Dalhousie, Mount Saint Vincent University, Acadia University, etc.
Presenter: Matthew Bonn
Presentation: ACADIA University, School of Social Work, MSVU, etc.
Date: 2020
Addressing the Syndemic…
“People who use drugs face concurrent public health emergencies from overdoses, HIV, hepatitis C, and COVID-19, leading to an unprecedented syndemic. Responses to PWUD that go beyond treatment—such as decriminalization and providing a safe supply of pharmaceutical-grade drugs—could reduce impacts of this syndemic.”
Presenter: Matthew Bonn
Conference: First, Do Less Harm
Date: November 12, 2020
This Tent Saves Lives
OPS are self-funded initiatives, some of which now receive ongoing funding from their local public health bodies. They typically rely on crowdfunding most OPS have used Go Fund Me as a website to fundraise, but they also take money from the donations.
Presenters: Natasha Touesnard & Matthew Bonn
Webinar: Urgent Public Health Need Site Community of Practice HUB.
Date: October 5, 2020
Nothing About Us Without Us
This is a presentation and slide deck from a trip our two staff members had going to Fredericton, New Brunswick to check out Atlantic Canada’s first Injectable Opioid Agonist Therapy program and to start building capacity amongst people who use drugs in New Brunswick.
Presenters: Natasha Touesnard & Matthew Bonn
Conference: Nothing About US Without Us Workshop
Date: November 10th 2020
Public Education Symposium
A group of researchers at the University of Toronto and the Canadian Association of People Who Use Drugs are studying a remote supervised-consumption model known as “spotting” to understand its benefits among people who use drugs during the pandemic.
The research team coined the term because the model involves a “spottee” consuming drugs in a safe location such as their home while a friend, family member or an acquaintance – the spotter –monitors them virtually.
RECAP Annual General Meeting
The Centre for Research, Education & Clinical Care of At-Risk Populations aims to provide access to screening, treatment and prevention for populations at risk for hepatitis C and associated communicable diseases.RECAP’s mission will be accomplished by through the following three pillars:
1) Research – Maintain research through clinical trials, program evaluation and epidemiological studies.
2) Education – Serve as an educational resource and model of care for learners and community.
3) Clinical Care – deliver innovative, specialized, holistic and collaborative clinical care to the individual, family and community.
Presenting to 1st Year Med Students
Matthew Bonn & Dr. Tommy Brothers were invited tp speak at the first day of the class of 2024 Medical Students!
September 1st, 2020
Overdose Prevention in a Pandemic Setting.
Harm Reduction/Overdose Prevention services are needed now more than ever.Providing these services will reduce COVID-19 amongst people who use drugs. They are essential life saving services and should be led and ran by people who use drugs. Authentic harm reduction services that follow the guiding principle “Nothing About Us Without Us” will have more success and sustainability than non user led services.