Here you can find Waterloo Region substance use-related reports and studies from a variety of authors. Reports are organized by topic and available in PDF format.

Safer Supply

Sanguen Health Centre in partnership with The Working Centre offers the life saving Safer Supply service "in response to the drug poisoning crisis with an objective of reducing overdose-related harm and overdose death in the Kitchener-Waterloo Community." (Sanguen Health Centre, 2024). In September 2023 two evaluation reports were released on the impact(s) of the program:

  • Outcomes from the Safer Supply Program in Kitchener-Waterloo (September, 2023). This report focuses on outcomes for clients who participated in the Safer Supply Program with regards to influence on "overdose risk and unregulated drug use, physical and mental health, and access to health and social services outcomes, social determinants of health outcomes, and stability outcomes." A summary of the report can be found here.
  • The Kitchener-Waterloo Safer Supply Program: A Collaborative Model of Care (September, 2023). This report focuses on the collaborative care model used in the Kitchener-Waterloo Safer Supply Program based on the experiences of "clients, internal service providers (staff of Sanguen Health Centre who directly provide safer supply programming), and external service providers (staff members from partner organizations who work in collaboration with the SSP)." A summary of the report can be found here.

Naloxone

Opioids

Substance Use in Waterloo Region

  • Waterloo Region Substance Use Study (2017). This report outlines the results of a Region-wide substance use study and provides information on substance use trends, drug-related health issues, current needs of individuals who use substances and strategies to improve the health of people who use substances.

Harm Reduction

Waterloo Region Integrated Drugs Strategy

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