Harm Reduction

What is Harm Reduction?

Harm reduction refers to policies, programmes and practices that aim to minimize negative health, social and legal impacts associated with drug use, drug policies and drug laws. Harm reduction is grounded in justice and human rights. It focuses on positive change and on working with people without judgement, coercion, discrimination, or requiring that they stop using drugs as a precondition of support. Harm reduction encompasses a range of health and social services and practices that apply to illicit and licit drugs. These include, but are not limited to, drug consumption rooms, needle and syringe programmes, non-abstinence-based housing and employment initiatives, drug checking, overdose prevention and reversal, psychosocial support, and the provision of information on safer drug use. Approaches such as these are cost-effective, evidence-based and have a positive impact on individual and community health.

  • Lifeguard App

    A Digital Health Company That’s Creating Life-Saving Apps and Assisting with Safer Living.

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  • The Brave App

    Virtual overdose prevention in your pocket, so you don't have to use alone. Person to person connection. No judgement, just Love.

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  • Towards The Heart

    Toward the Heart is part of the BC Centre for Disease Control. We believe every person has the right to the best health possible and should be treated with dignity and respect.

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  • NaloxHome

    NaloxHome is led by the belief that knowledge is power, and by learning about issues around us, we are equipped to contribute to their end.

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  • MySafe Society

    The MySafe Project is a safe supply initiative formed in response to the overdose crisis — providing people with a safer, regulated supply of opioids to prevent drug overdoses.

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  • Opioid Response and Nasal Naloxone Training From St. John Ambulance

    All across Canada, the opioid epidemic is getting worse. Health Canada asked St. John Ambulance to provide desperately needed opioid and nasal Naloxone training, as well as nasal Naloxone kits, to communities who are struggling to stop opioid poisonings (overdoses).

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  • NORS

    NORS is an overdose prevention hotline for Canadians providing loving, confidential, nonjudgmental support for you, whenever and wherever you use drugs.

    Call (Canada only): 1-888-688-NORS(6677)

    you can also….

    Call Never Use Alone (US only): 1-800-484-3731

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