Official Twitter account for the Canadian Managed Alcohol Programs Study (CMAPS), a project of @UVic_CISUR. CMAPS evaluates and supports MAPs in Canada 📊🍺 ❤️
A new housing-based MAP has opened in Whitehorse.
“The program is targeted toward people with treatment-resistant AUD. Residents will receive counselling, social support, health care and cultural activities — as well as monitored doses of alcohol.”
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🚨Publication alert🚨
An exploration of participant experiences at an Indigenous-led MAP, co-led by @nursembrown.
"An Indigenous-led alcohol harm reduction program within a model of culture as healing facilitated shifts in relationships to alcohol..."
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In Canada, alcohol is legal & we have a safe supply of booze. So why do some people drink mouthwash? And why does the state over-police poor people for public drinking?
In our new episode we investigate with @VANDUpeople's Illicit Drinkers Group (EIDGE).crackdownpod.com/episodes/ep…
You'll learn about alcohol-specific harm reduction, the history of alcohol policy in the DTES & how the illicit drinkers community has kept themselves safe from @VANDUpeople's Herb Varley, John Onland, Brittany Graham, @Aaron_R_Bailey and Professor @BerniePauly.
ALT Twenty members of EIDGE meet in Oppenheimer Park. They smile at the camera while sitting on benches and standing around a big white pad.
ALT EIDGE Coordinator Aaron Bailey looks at the camera while attending a Drug User Liberation Front rally in front of the provincial courts in January, 2024.
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'"This is where the greatest risk is," Gauvin said. "Unpalatable substances can wreak havoc on a person's health more rapidly than regular consumable alcohol."'
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Special thanks to the EIDGE Steering Committee, whose ideas, stories, and labour are captured by this issue.
Herb Varley
Sven Black
George Sedore
John Onland
Jane Milina
Tyler Byrd
BoomBoom
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Inspired by Bill 34 struggles, the membership of our Eastside Illicit Drinkers Group for Education (EIDGE) has been working on telling our own stories as tools for policy change.
The EIDGE leadership is excited to share its new zine, which we hope will do just that. (2/3)
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"I think there’s a number of benefits to managed alcohol programs, and we’ve seen them in other areas across the country,” said Cameron Grandy, the territory’s director of mental wellness and substance use services."
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New research out of Hamilton, ON:
"Physicians, social workers, addiction counsellors, and other allied health providers should collaborate to conduct SBIRT for all actively drinking patients admitted for AAH or DARLC."
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Managed Alcohol Programs currently providing cannabis substitution evaluated by CMAPS are gathered here in Vancouver.
Staff, peers, and organizational leaders are here to share their experiences providing cannabis in MAP and set the direction of future CMAPS research!
The second and final day of our CMAPS cannabis gathering is underway.
We're reviewing yesterday's discussion and the successes / challenges each participating organization has faced.
After lunch, we'll close with visits to the @PHScss Drinkers Lounge CMAP and @VANDUpeople .
Sooooooo proud and happy for these two incredible nurse scholars & researchers. Today, they are officially Dr. Brown & Dr. Sullivan!! @UVicNursing #safersupply @CMAPStudy @UVic_CISUR @nursembrown
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Our experience demonstrates that the lived expertise of drinkers can play an integral role in creating alcohol harm reduction materials, specifically those related to cannabis substitution, when combined with data from rigorous, community-based programs of research. (3/3)
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In this essay, we draw on over 10-years of collaboration between CMAPS, and organizations of people with lived experience to describe our experiences co-creating cannabis education resources where none existed to support MAP sites piloting cannabis. (2/3)
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🚨 PUBLICATION ALERT 🚨
New from CMAPS in the International Journal of Drug Policy:
Translating the lived experience of illicit drinkers into program guidance for cannabis substitution: Experiences from the Canadian Managed Alcohol Program Study
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