Addictions Treatment Services Association: atsa

08/31/2023

❗️August 31st from 6 to 830pm.

🎬Screening of “Love in the Time of Fentanyl”
🥪Good eats
🆓SWAP will be there with Naloxone kits, drug testing strips, HIV self test kits & more❗️

Folks are welcome to come to the event & choose not to attend the screening💜 SWAP will be there to greet folks & offer resources, info & some snacks throughout the event.

05/31/2022

A much-welcomed first step in the right direction!

As of January 2023, B.C. will decriminalize possession of drugs. Hopefully these changes will produce positive outcomes for people who carry and/or use substances and inform a federal decriminalization strategy.

What are your thoughts on this first step towards decriminalization in Canada and North America? Let us know in the comments.

The decriminalization of small amounts of illicit substances – such as illicit fentanyl, he**in, co***ne and methamphetamine – in B.C. is made possible by an exemption from federal drug law. It will take effect Jan. 31, 2023

05/24/2022

🗣🗣 Deadline for tickets is TODAY! Scan the QR code on the poster below or click the link to our event page to purchase yours.

‼️DEADLINE to register is fast approaching‼️

Get your tickets by Tuesday, May 24th to save your spot at our annual conference. For more details, follow the link below to our event page:

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05/19/2022

‼️DEADLINE to register is fast approaching‼️

Get your tickets by Tuesday, May 24th to save your spot at our annual conference. For more details, follow the link below to our event page:

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04/24/2022

🔉🔊 DON’T FORGET 🔊🔉

Our annual conference is happening on May 27, 2022! Save the date and stay tuned to our page for more info on registration coming soon.

🚨SAVE THE DATE🚨

atsa is announcing their annual conference titled “A Matter of Equity: Understanding Substance Use Health” on Friday, May 27, 2022.

Our keynote speaker, Gord Garner, will speak on an exciting and contemporary topic of substance use health and how professionals in our province can learn about and implement this model into their daily supportive work.

More speakers to be announced.

Look out for an Eventbrite page in the coming weeks in order to save your spot!

Please share this post with your contacts and networks!

04/21/2022

Fantastic article highlighting the essential work being done in the Carbonear area with “U-Turn”.

Jeff Bourne is right: “I think it’s the before and after care that’s something that’s got to be looked into, I guess more so than anything else.”

What are your thoughts? Let us know in the comments.

CARBONEAR, N.L. — Jeff Bourne says Newfoundland and Labrador has come a long way in the last four or five years regarding mental health and ...

04/21/2022

“Not everyone can fully abstain from substances, nor do they wish to, and that needs to be respected.”

A co-founder of Sudbury’s guerilla supervised opioid consumption site says drugs that have been adulterated with other substances are a major driver of overdoses and deaths

04/14/2022

🚨SAVE THE DATE🚨

atsa is announcing their annual conference titled “A Matter of Equity: Understanding Substance Use Health” on Friday, May 27, 2022.

Our keynote speaker, Gord Garner, will speak on an exciting and contemporary topic of substance use health and how professionals in our province can learn about and implement this model into their daily supportive work.

More speakers to be announced.

Look out for an Eventbrite page in the coming weeks in order to save your spot!

Please share this post with your contacts and networks!

02/22/2022

You’ve heard of using Psilocybin to treat mental health disorders, but what about other substances? A clinic in Canada is helping people treat their PTSD symptoms with ketamine. Read this CBC article to discover how ketamine is being used and how it’s helping.

A one-time veterinary anesthetic that gained a reputation as an effective battlefield drug during the Vietnam War and then became an illicit rave drug known as Special K is now being touted as an effective treatment for PTSD.