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Flood: The Overdose Epidemic in Canada
Highlighting the "province-to-province grassroots initiatives [that] provide harm reduction services, prevent overdoses, and reverse overdoses when they happen", this documentary addresses the stigma around substance use disorder. It narrows its…
Tags: 11 or more total individuals featured, 6 to 10 PWLLE, 70-99% White, Addiction Does Not Discriminate, Affront to Human Rights, Age Mixture, Barrier to Action, Barrier to Treatment, Break the Silence, Dehumanization, Documentary, Features person with disability, Increases Overdose Risk, Mentions Decriminalization, Mixture of Classes, Mostly younger individuals, Normalize Positive Treatment, Normalize Substance Use, Sex Worker Stigma, Societal Silence, Structural/Historical/Political
Courageous Conversations
A year and a half after the release of the "Stop Overdose BC" campaign, the BC Government Communications & Public Engagement agency (GCPE) enlisted the help of a multicultural ad agency, Captus Advertising, to adapt the campaign for ethnic…
In Plain Sight
Between May and August of 2019, Health Canada released an 8-episode podcast series on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and their own website that "explores the personal stories of people affected by the opioid crisis"; a crisis that is happening "in…
Stop Overdose BC
This anti-stigma campaign was developed by BC's Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions and launched in January 2018. The social marketing campaign's materials included two TV spot PSAs, an initial roll-out of four posters/social media ads (coloured…
