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Making the Difference: On the frontlines of the addiction and opioid crisis in Saskatchewan
A short documentary that was later cut and used as pre-roll advertisements that played on social media and at hospitals, this Saskatchewan-based campaign aimed to raise awareness about the ongoing drug addictions crisis, highlighting that…
Opioid Overdoses: What you need to know
Campaign posters and ads pushed traffic to the website above which also includes an updated version of the campaign poster that differs slightly from the file above (the initial version of the poster launched in 2020). Slight differences…
Compassionate Action: An Anti-Stigma Campaign
A series of dramatizations, focusing on the importance of showing compassion to people with lived or living experience of susbtance use. Of note, many of the actors in the videos were people with lived and living experience (PWLLEs). These videos…
Everyone is Impacted (Critical Condition: The Opioid Crisis in Grande Prairie)
For the first iteration of this campaign in 2019, the City of Grande Prairie, SK released a video featuring a variety of people with lived and living experience (PWLLEs) and service providers, discussing the increased substance use in their town.…
On peut tous agir pour sauver des vies. (We can all do our part to save lives.)
Based in Quebec, this 2019 anti-stigma campaign advocated for the general public to help fight the ongoing opioid crisis. Created for French-speaking audiences, two videos and three campaign posters were released. All campaign materials contain the…
Innocence Lost: Stories of Youth Addiction on PEI
"This short documentary features four young adults who tell their personal stories of substance use from how they started to where they are now" (from YouTube). This video features two mothers of young adults that suffered from substance use disorder…
Protect Lives. Prevent Overdose.
Born out of the "dual public health emergencies" of the overdose crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, the FNHA released this "extensive, province-wide overdose prevention campaign" related to harm reduction, comparing the provincial response to both…
"Taking Care of Each Other": Indigenous Harm Reduction Video Series
A collaboration between First Nations Health Authority and Vancouver Coastal Health, this campaign is a four-part video series covering the following topics:
Harm Reduction
Indigenizing Harm Reduction
Resisting (Reducing) Stigma
Hopes for the…
End Stigma (Interior Health)
Notable for including the narrative of a person in active use, "End Stigma" is a "four part series of stories and videos about the stigma faced by those impacted by substance use". Interior Health also cut together a 30-second version of each…
Flood: The Overdose Epidemic in Canada
Highlighting the "province-to-province grassroots initiatives [that] provide harm reduction services, prevent overdoses, and reverse overdoses when they happen", this documentary addresses the stigma around substance use disorder. It narrows its…