Additional Community Resources

Are you experiencing any discomfort and wishing to speak with someone to help resolve these feelings? The research team encourages you to access the following crisis, substance use or mental health resources available. Or speak with your care provider directly.

Immediate Crisis Support:
Saskatoon Crisis Intervention Service: 306-933-6200
Crisis Services Canada: 1-833-456-4566 or text 45645
First Nations and Inuit Hope for Wellness Help Line: 1-855-242-3310
Emergency Services: 911

Substance Use Related Support:
Prairie Harm Reduction: 306-242-5005
211 Saskatchewan: 211 from your SK telephone
Métis Addictions Council of Saskatchewan: 306-652-8951
Saskatoon Tribal Council (STC) Health Centre: 306-956-0345
Calder Treatment Centre: 306-655-4500

Mental Health and Non-Crisis Support:
Mental Health and Addictions Community Services (Adult): 306-655-7777
Healthline: 811 from your SK telephone

Take-Home Naloxone Kit and Training Access:
You have access to a free take-home naloxone kit and training to use the kit. To access this resource please contact Prairie Harm Reduction or Mayfair Drugs directly.

For additional support services and access to take-home naloxone kits in Saskatchewan, please visit A Guide to Hope and Healing: Substance Use Services in Saskatchewan in our P5 Presentations and Publications.

Resources:

Prairie Harm Reduction
OUTSaskatoon
Moms Stop the Harm
Saskatchewan Health Authority – Mental Health and Addictions
Saskatchewan Coroners Service – Drug Toxicity Deaths
Government of Canada – Canada’s Opioid Crisis
Canadian Drug Policy Coalition (CDPC)
Stimulus
Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy (CSSDP)
Thunderbird Partnership Foundation
Toward the Heart
CATIE

Research:

Consolidating perspectives on the nature of Saskatoon’s evolving opioid crisis
Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse (CRISM) – Prairies node
CRISM – British Columbia node
CRISM – Ontario node
CRISM – Québec-Atlantic node
Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA)
BC Centre Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU)
Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research (CISUR)
Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)