In 2016, the Minister of Health announced an updated drug strategy for Canada: The Canadian Drugs and Substances Strategy, which works to balance public health and public safety objectives through the key pillars of prevention, treatment, enforcement, and harm reduction.

This year, RNAO, along with more than 130 energized and politically active members, attended Queen's Park in February to call for action on opioid overdose to end this crisis in 2020. Between January 2016 and June 2019, 4,500 Ontarians lost their lives to opioid overdose and it has become an escalating public health crisis. The crisis demands a practical approach, one that makes keeping people alive a priority. Services that address addiction and trauma are necessary, but first, we have to prevent overdose deaths.

This FREE 1-hour forum is intended to provide you, members and non-members of Region 11 and beyond, an opportunity to hear from professionals in Ontario tackling the areas of prevention, treatment, enforcement, and harm reduction, as well as to ask any pressing questions you may have concerning the Opioid Crisis.

We hope you will join us for this new and informative forum during Nurses' Week 2020! 

Thank you, 

Region 11 (Algoma, Sudbury & District, Nipissing, Kirkland Lake & Temiskaming, and Porcupine Chapters)