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SUPERVISED CONSUMPTION SERVICES
April 21, 2025
CSAM Position Statement on Supervised Consumption Services
RESPONSE FROM HON. SAKS
Feb 26, 2025
Response from the Hon. Ya’ara Saks re: Pharmacare – Feb 14 2025
CSAM HESA BRIEF
Nov 4, 2024
CSAM-SMCA Brief Submitted to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health Re: “Opioid Epidemic and Toxic Drug Crisis in Canada”
IMPORTANT RELEASE
August 23, 2024
CSAM-SMCA Response to Ontario Government changes announced Aug 20, 2024
PHARMACARE
June 14, 2024
CSAM-SMCA letters sent to: Hon. Ya’ara Saks, Hon. Senator Stan Kutcher, Hon. Senator Kim Pate, Hon. Mark Holland, Mr. Peter Julian, NDP MP, Mr. Gord Johns, NDP MP re: Canadian National Pharmacare Registry.
New Report: How COVID-19 Is Changing Addiction Medicine
June 1, 2021
The Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine and the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse have released a comprehensive report on the impact the COVID-19 Pandemic has had on addiction treatment in Canada.
Canada’s Top Addiction Medicine Conference to be Held Online in 2021
May 18, 2021
The Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine will once again host its keystone event online in 2021, building on the success of its record-breaking 2021 conference.
Criminalizing Drug Use is Harming Canadians
February 25, 2021
The Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine is calling on the Canadian government to stop treating drug users like criminals and start providing the health care they need to recover from a life-threatening illness. In a policy paper released in fall 2020, the society said the criminalization of drug use has been “an abject failure,” channelling sick people into an overburdened criminal justice system that fails to provide access to life-saving opioid agonist therapy and does little to help them recover.
Opposition to Health's Canada Proposal to Reverse Regulatory Changes
February 10, 2021
In a letter written to Health Canada, by the CSAM-SMCA Executive, they clearly state their opposition in Health’s Canada proposal to reverse regulatory changes made in 2013 that prohibit access to restricted drugs through the Special Access Program with respect to cocaine and related products.
Virtual Care for Mental Health and Substance Use During COVID-19
Getting care early can support wellbeing and help prevent more serious mental health and substance use problems. In-person treatment may not be available to you, but virtual care is available to everyone in Canada right now. Check out the details on this infographic
2020 Poster Deadline Extended
June 16, 2020
ISAM-CSAM 2020 Conference Co-Chairs Jennifer Brasch and Nady el-Gubaly announced today that the submission deadline for electronic posters has been extended until August 1, 2020.
