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Compassionate Action: An Anti-Stigma Campaign
A series of dramatizations, focusing on the importance of showing compassion to people with lived or living experience of susbtance use. Of note, many of the actors in the videos were people with lived and living experience (PWLLEs). These videos…
Everyone is Impacted (Critical Condition: The Opioid Crisis in Grande Prairie)
For the first iteration of this campaign in 2019, the City of Grande Prairie, SK released a video featuring a variety of people with lived and living experience (PWLLEs) and service providers, discussing the increased substance use in their town.…
Protect Lives. Prevent Overdose.
Born out of the "dual public health emergencies" of the overdose crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, the FNHA released this "extensive, province-wide overdose prevention campaign" related to harm reduction, comparing the provincial response to both…
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…
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…