The Fentanil Project - MacEwan

Please have your abstracts sent by Sunday, October 9th. We look forward to hearing from you! :)

Join us for a club meeting and training on how to use intramuscular naloxone!

We hope to see you Thursday :)

Next club meeting, Thursday, March 17th at 7pm, we’ll be going through our naloxone training presentation! This session will provide background information on the current synthetic opioid crisis impacting Canada, what harm reduction is and why it matters, how to identify an opioid poisoning & how to administer intramuscular naloxone!

There are no conditions to join us, everyone is welcome! The meeting will be held online via GoogleMeets, simply message us on FaceBook or Instagram () or send us an email ([email protected]) to get signed up for our mailing list!

While the opioid crisis is having detrimental effects across canada, there are some communities being hit harder yet. Indigenous communities are significantly over represented, with overdose rates 5x higher than non-Indigenous populations.

Cannabis usage has increased drastically since the pandemic, here are some tips for safer usage!

The op**te crisis has only continued to worsen during the COVID-19 Pandemic, so it’s fitting that day 5 of National Addictions Awareness Week focuses on opioids. Let’s look at what opioids are, how they work, bust some myths, and of course talk about harm reduction!

Adverse Childhood Experienced can include any number of traumatic events through one's childhood, here we've focused on the major categories but they are not an exhaustive list!
ACEs have been linked to negative health effects later in life and deserve as much attention and care as efforts to reduce other negative health impacts, such as smoking

Okay so gambling, it seems pretty harmless, most people do it and they're fine right? Some people can gamble and be okay, but there are very severe negative impacts that can occur when someone engages in problem gambling.

Day 2 of National Addictions Awareness Week and we're focusing on alcohol! Alcohol is one of the most condoned drug use in society but it still has very harmful effects. Swipe to learn more!

It's National Addictions Awareness Week!! Today we're focusing on stigma, what is it? why does it matter? and what can we do?