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MMT Infographic   About Percs, Oxys, and other Pain Pills   

                        Quick facts about Methadone                          A brief overiew about the types of                                        An infographic about the 
                            Maintenance Treatment                            drugs, their uses, and help resources                                          dangers of fentanyl
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Fact Sheets

    Here's what you need to know.

     Fact sheets for people who are currently using opioids.

Fact Sheet: Getting HelpFact Sheet: Pregnancy and opioidsFact Sheet: Preventing OverdoseFact Sheet: Using Safely

 

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Easy to Read Pamphlets

 

Do You Know Heroin     Do You Know Prescription OpioidsDo You Know Methadone

Easy to read pamphlets with information about heroin, prescription opioids, and methadone
 

Webinars

In descending chronological order:

2017 

  • Trauma-Informed Practices for Engaging Women Who Use Substances. Presented by Julia Bloomenfeld and Rosanra Yoon. Hosted by the Provincial System Support Program at CAMH and the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario. Recording | Slides | Resources | Outstanding questions

  • How Can Injectable Hydromorphone and Pharmaceutical-Grade Heroin be Used to Treat Opioid Use Disorder? Presented by Dr. Eugenia Oviedo-Joekes and Dr. Martin Schechter. Hosted by the Provincial System Support Program at CAMH and the Opioid Overdose Prevention and Naloxone Access Working Group. Recording | Slides | Resources 

  • Opioids Across the Lifespan Part 3: Older Adults. Presented by Dr.  Jonathan Bertram. Hosted by the Provincial System Support Program at CAMH and the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario. Recording | Slides 
  • Opioids Across the Lifespan Part 2: Transitional Aged Youth. Presented by Dr.  Kim Corace, Lori Naylor & Stephen Chatterton. Hosted by the Provincial System Support Program at CAMH and the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario. Recording | Slides | Resources 
  • Overdose Monitoring And Response For Ontario. Presented by Jeff Beeson, Karin Hohenadel and Michael Parkinson. Hosted by the Provincial System Support Program at CAMH. Recording | Slides 
  • Opioids Across the Lifespan Part 1: Perinatal Opioid Use. Presented by Dr. Alice Ordean. Hosted by the Provincial System Support Program at CAMH and the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario. Recording | Slides 
  • Policy Measures for Legalization and Regulation of Cannabis in Canada. Presented by Jean-François Crépault and Rebecca Jesseman. Hosted by the Provincial System Support Program at CAMH and the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario. Recording | Slides 
  • Making the Choice, Making It Work: An Opioid Agonist Therapy Handbook. Presented by Andrew Johnson, Sean LeBlanc and Tim Ominika. Hosted by the Provincial System Support Program at CAMH and the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario. Recording | Slides
     

2016 

  • Pain and Opioid Use-What You Need to Know. Presented by Dr. Andrew Smith. Hosted by the Provincial System Support Program at CAMH and the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario. Recording | Slides
  • Trauma-Informed Care for Substance Use. Presented by Julia Bloomenfeld and Rosanra Yoon. Hosted by the Hosted by the Provincial System Support Program at CAMH and the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario. Recording | Slides
  • An Introduction to Motivational Interviewing for Substance Use. Presented by Tim Godden and Alexandra Andic. Hosted by the Hosted by the Provincial System Support Program at CAMH and the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario. Recording | Slides
  • Overdose Prevention with Naloxone: National and Provincial Landscape. Presented by Matthew Young, Dr. Aaron Orkin and Allan Malek. Hosted by the Provincial System Support Program at CAMH and the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario. Recording  | Slides 
  • Highlights from the Ontario Student Drug Use and Health Survey. Part Two: Moving Evidence to Action. Presented by Elizabeth Amorim, Po-Po Lam, Mark Beazley and Gail Czukar. Hosted by the Provincial System Support Program at CAMH. Recording | Slides
  • Highlights from the Ontario Student Student Drug Use and Health Survey. Part One of a Two Part Series. Presented by Tamar Meyer and Jason Guriel with panelists Dr. Robert Mann, Dr. Hayley Hamilton, Angela Boak, and Gloria Chaim. Hosted by the Provincial System Support Program at CAMH. Recording | Slides | Presenter Q & A
  • Harm Reduction and Substance Use-Lessons From the Field. Part Two of a Two Part Series. Presented by Joel Boivin and Luc Cormier in partnership with the Opioid Resource Hub at CAMH and the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario. Recording | Slides
  • Harm Reduction and Substance Use-What You Need to Know. Part One of a Two Part Series. Presented by Walter Cavalieri in partnership with the Opioid Resource Hub at CAMH and the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario. Recording | Slides
  • Strengthening Your Voice: A Training Program for Publicly Sharing Stories of Lived Experience with Prescription Pain Medication. Presented by Susan Eckerle-Curwood, Betty-Lou Kristy, and Mike Stroh in partnership with the Provincial System Support Program at CAMH and the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario. Recording | Slides
  • Mental Health Strengths and Needs among Aboriginal Peoples-Lessons from the Field Part Two of a Two Part Series. Presented by Nina Desjardins, Brennan Ireland and Mae Katt in Partnership with the Provincial System Support Program at CAMH and the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario. Recording | Slides
  • Mental Health Strengths and Needs among Aboriginal Peoples-Foundations & Context Part One of a Two Part Series. Presented by Holly Smith and Bill Hill in partnership with the Provincial System Support Program at CAMH and the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario. Recording | Slides

 

2015

  • Opioids 101: An Introduction to Opioid Use, Misuse, Treatment, and Overdose Prevention. Presented by Lori Naylor and Lisa Gillespie in partnership with the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario. Recording | Slides
  • mindyourmind's Substance Use A to Z: An Online Learning Resource for Youth Presented by Andrea Kirkham and Inali Barger in partnership with the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario and CAMH Health Promotion Resource Centre (HPRC). Recording | Slides
  • The Effects of Cannabis Use during Adolescence. Presented by Sheena Gereghty and Dr. Sharon Cirone in partnership with the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) and CAMH Health Promotion Resource Centre (HPRC). Recording | Slides
  • Opioid Use in Ontario: Evidence for Change. Presented by Daniel Elliot and Michael Parkinson. Opioid Resource Hub (ORH) in collaboration with EENet. Recording | Slides
  • What to Expect: Maternal Cannabis Use during Pregnancy Presented by Dr. Amy Porath-Waller and Katie Fleming in partnership with the Registrered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO). Recording | Slides

  • What To Expect Maternal Cannabis Use during Pregnancy and the Impacts on Offspring.  Presented by Dr. Amy Porath-Waller and Katie Fleming in partnership with the Registrered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO).   Recording | Slides

  • Youth Mental Health Promotion @School: Conditions, Capacity, Collaboration. Presented by Kathy Short and Michelle Jubin in partnership with the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) and CAMH Health Promotion Resource Centre (HPRC).  No audio available with recording.   Recording | Slides

  • A Model for Refusal Skills: Crucial Conversations.  Presented by Dr. Peter Selby.   Recording | Slides

  • Spotlight on Mindyourmind: Innovative Practices in Youth Substance Use Prevention.  Presented by Andrea Kirkham and Christine Garinger in partnership with the RNAO and CAMH HPRC.   Recording | Slides

  • Identifying and Managing Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome.  Presented by Dr. Alice Ordean.   Recording | Slides
 
2014

  • Youth and Opioids: Sharpening Our Focus Presented by Monica Nunes and Lorraine Barnaby. Opioid Resource Hub (ORH) Initiative in collaboration with the Health Promotion Resource Centre and Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO).   Recording |Slides

  • Examining Substance Use in Older Adults – An Interactive Webinar.  Presented by Bonnie Purcell, Lori Naylor and Gordon Seaman. Opioid Resource Hub (ORH) Initiative in collaboration with Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) .  Recording | Slides

  • Older Adults and Opioid Replacement Therapy within Clinical and Community Settings.  Presented by Lori Naylor and Gordon Seaman. Opioid Resource Hub (ORH) Initiative in collaboration with Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO).   Recording |Slides

  • Screening and Brief Interventions for Substance Related Problems in Later Life.  Presented by Bonnie Purcell. Opioid Resource Hub (ORH) Initiative in collaboration with Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO).  Recording | Slides

  • Substance Use and Alcohol: Women, Pregnancy and After Birth.  Presented by Mary Mueller. Opioid Resource Hub (ORH) Initiative in collaboration with Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO).   Recording | Slides

  • Opioids Basics for School Communities- Part 1.  Presented by Janet Humble.   Recording | Slides

  • Opioids Basics for School Communities- Part 2.  Presented by Janet Humble.   Recording | Slides

  • Mental Health, Addictions and CNO Practice Standards.  Not recorded.  Presented by Angela McNabb. Opioid Resource Hub (ORH) Initiative in collaboration with Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO).   Recording | Slides

  • Managing Opioids with Acute Pain Patients.  Presented by Dr. David Mock.    Recording | Slides

  • Youth, Opioid Use Disorders and Treatment Options.  Presented by Dr. Sharon Cirone.   Recording | Slides

  • Interactions between Opioids and Alcohol.  Presented by Dr. Andriy Samokhvalov CAMH.    Recording | Slides

  • First Nations and aboriginal Youth and Substance Use.  Presented by Mae Katt, Nurse Practitioner Thunder Bay Ontario.     Recording | Slides

 

2013

  • Pregnancy and Substance Involved Clients.  Presented by Tannis Fletcher-Stackhouse and Mary Mueller. Opioid Resource Hub (ORH) Initiative in collaboration with Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) and Prescribers' Clinical Support System for Opioid Therapies (PCSS-O).    Recording | Slides

  • Social Determinants of Health, Addictions and Opioids.  Presented by Suzanne Witt-Foley.    Recording | Slides

  • Opioids 101: Laying the Foundation.   Presented by Lori Naylor, RSW (Breakaway Satellite Opioid Resource Hub (ORH) Addiction Treatment Program).  RNAO/Opioid Resource Hub (ORH) partnership.   Recording | Slides

  • Issues in Opioid Overdose Prevention.  Presented by Wendy Wood and Betty-Lou Kristy.   Recording | Slides

  • Launching the Strengthening Your Voice Guide.  Presented by Betty-Lou Kristy, Barbara Steep and Sean LeBlanc.   Recording | Slides

  • Key Concepts in Safer Opioid Therapy: A Changed Landscape.  Presented by Andrea Fernandes.   Recording | Slides

  • Opioid Basics: Health Promotion, Prevention and Harm Reduction Approaches.  Presented by Susan Lalonde-Rankin (CAMH) and Susan Shepherd (Toronto Drug Strategy Secretariat). Recording | Slides

  • Motivating Behaviour Change in Patients Using Opioids.  Presented by Laura Murphy (RPh, BScPhm, PharmD Altum Health, University Health Network, Toronto). Recording | Slides

  • Stigma and MMT. Presented by Lori Naylor, RSW (Breakaway Satellite Opioid Resource Hub (ORH) Addiction Treatment Program). Recording | Slides

  • Suboxone: An Alternative to Methadone for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence.  Presented by Dr. Curtis Handford from CAMH and Mae Katt (Nurse Practitioner), Colleen McCreery (School Nurse), and Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School in Thunder Bay. Recording | Slides

  • Supporting Opioid Recovery with Adjunct Therapies.  Presented by Lori Naylor, RSW (Breakaway Satellite Opioid Resource Hub (ORH) Addiction Treatment Program). Recording | Slides

 

2012

  • Management of Perinatal Opioid Addiction.  Presented by Dr. Alice Ordean MD, CCFP, MHSc (St. Joseph's Health Centre). Recording | Slides

  • Opioid Basics.  Presented by Lori Naylor, RSW (Breakaway Satellite Opioid Resource Hub (ORH) Addiction Treatment Program). Recording | Slides

  • Opioid Substitution Therapy: Buprenorphine Guidelines.  Presented by Dr. Peter Selby, CAMH. Recording | Slides

  • Anxiety, Depression and MMT.  Presented by Lori Naylor, RSW (Breakaway Satellite Opioid Resource Hub (ORH) Addiction Treatment Program). Recording | Slides

  • Trauma, PTSD and MMT.  Presented by Lori Naylor, RSW (Breakaway Satellite Opioid Resource Hub (ORH) Addiction Treatment Program). Recording | Slides

  • Non-pharmacologic Therapy and Chronic Pain.  Presented by Dr. Andrew Smith MDCM (CAMH). Recording | Slides More

Best Practices in Case Management

Best Practices in Case Management

A guide for case managers and other members of the treatment team who provide direct service to clients in methadone maintenance treatment.

Educational Kit

Beyond the Label

This educational kit focuses on the stigma associated with concurrent mental health and substance use problems. Through the learning process, participants will build on their ability to understand stigma and its impact.

A Handbook for Clients

A comprehensive resource that provides all of the information 
needed regarding Opioid Agonist Therapy in an easy-to-read booklet.

Designed for People who use Methadone

Straight Talk: Methadone

This brief, easy-to-read brochure offer factual information and guidance to help people to:
-understand and consider the risks of using
-know the signs of an overdose
-know what it means to be "hooked"
-know where they can get information about getting help.
 

Videos

Here are some informative videos:

Clinical Practice Tips videos: Effective Tapering Strategies for Prescription Opioids

In this series of four videos for family physicians and other health care practitioners, Dr Peter Selby, Chief of the Addictions Division at CAMH, presents guidance on tapering opioids from the Canadian Guidelines for Safe and Effective Use of Opioids for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain.

Clinical Practice Tips videos: Effective Tapering Strategies for Prescription Opioids

In this series of four videos for family physicians and other health care practitioners, Dr Peter Selby, Chief of the Addictions Division at CAMH, presents guidance on tapering opioids from the Canadian Guidelines for Safe and Effective Use of Opioids for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain.

A short five- minute video that describes new evidence based approaches for chronic pain management. It looks at chronic pain from a broad perspective including medical treatment, emotional wellbeing, diet and lifestyle changes, and physical activity.

This short documentary offers a window into the medically supervised methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) program. What is MMT? Is it a safe treatment alternative? How do MMT clients access this treatment? The collective voices of physicians, counsellors and clients in this video demystify methadone.

Planning Guide

MMT Community Planning Guide

This guide is intended for those communities interested in starting or expanding MMT services.  It guides you through the stages of establishing a community working group, engaging the community, and planning, implementing and evaluating your program.

Prescription Guidelines

 

ASAM National Practice Guidelines

The Practice Guideline can assist clinicians prescribing
pharmacotherapies to patients with addiction related to opioid use.

CAMH Monitor Infographic

Snapshot of Prescription Opioid & Cocaine Use

The CAMH Monitor, first conducted in 1977, is the longest ongoing addiction and mental health survey of adults 18 years and  older in Canada.  For more results from the survey, click here.

Online Course

Opioid Basics and Treatment Approaches and Recovery

Why are opioids prone to abuse?

This self-directed, online course is comprised of two modules that will increase your knowledge and understanding of opioid use and addiction treatment.

Module 1: Opioid Basics

Module 2: Treatment Approaches and Recovery

Fentanyl Video

 

As part of CAMH's ongoing Mental Health In The News video series, Dr. Peter Selby, Clinician Scientist in the Addictions Division and Director of Medical Education and Dr. Daniel Mueller, Head of the Pharmacogenetics Research Clinic, discuss the rise in fentanyl overdoses and how easier access to the anti-opioid drug Naloxone can help.

Clinical Practice Tips videos: Effective Tapering Strategies for Prescription Opioids

In this series of four videos for family physicians and other health care practitioners, Dr Peter Selby, Chief of the Addictions Division at CAMH, presents guidance on tapering opioids from the Canadian Guidelines for Safe and Effective Use of Opioids for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain.

Clinical Practice Tips videos: Effective Tapering Strategies for Prescription Opioids

In this series of four videos for family physicians and other health care practitioners, Dr Peter Selby, Chief of the Addictions Division at CAMH, presents guidance on tapering opioids from the Canadian Guidelines for Safe and Effective Use of Opioids for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain.

This brief documentary highlights the need of awareness and education around opioid overdose prevention, and importance of naloxone in reversing life-threatening effects of overdose. Naloxone can save a life!

 

 

Prescription for Addiction (short version) is a compelling documentary that examines the growing problem of dependence and addiction to opioid pain medications. This 39-minute version includes insights from doctors and health professionals.