On October 3, the four CRISM NPIs met with the Honourable Jane Philpott, Federal Minister of Health, to discuss topics of mutual interest, including the current opioid crisis, cannabis legalization, and the role CRISM infrastructure will play in generating timely evidence to inform practice and policy.

You can download the Q&A style briefing note provided to Minister Philpott here. Please feel free to share this document in your networks.

Topic

Emergency care

decriminalisation

Harm reduction

Law enforcement/incarceration

Concordance Between Urine Drug Screening and Self-Reported Use in the Context of a Pragmatic Randomized-Controlled Trial in People with Prescription-Type Opioid Use Disorder: Concordance entre le dépistage de drogues dans l’urine et l’usage autodéclaré dans le contexte d’un essai pragmatique contrôlé à répartition aléatoire chez des personnes présentant un trouble lié à l’usage d’opioïdes vendus sur ordonnance

Bastien G, Abboud A, McAnulty C, Mahroug A, Le Foll B, Socias ME, Juteau LC, Dubreucq S, Jutras-Aswad D., Can J Psychiatry. 2025

Opioid agonist treatment

Prescription monitoring

Recovery

Substance

Alcohol

Cannabis

Injectable drug use

Tobacco/nicotine

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