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In Plain Sight
Between May and August of 2019, Health Canada released an 8-episode podcast series on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and their own website that "explores the personal stories of people affected by the opioid crisis"; a crisis that is happening "in…
Increase the Support. Reduce the Harm.
Presents short interviews with 11 Indigenous people with lived experience, this campaign includes individual talks discussing the overdose crisis, recovery from addiction and substance use-related stigma. Special attention is paid to the uniquely…
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…
It is ok to ask for help
In April 2023, the City of Edmonton's YouTube channel released a brief video aimed at informing the public about the ongoing drug toxicity crisis within the local community. The video features an interview with Crystal, a mother who shares her story…
Know More
Targeted toward teenagers and young adults, the Know More tour, originally in-person, visited high schools, events, and summer festivals to facilitate interactive activities on problematic opioid use. Along with addressing stigma towards people who…
Label Me Person
When it launched in 2019, the Label Me Person campaign was meant to be a city-wide "travelling community display"; over the course of a year, its home base relocated to different organizations in Windsor. The pop-up started at Windsor Regional…
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…
Making the Difference: Small Town Anywhere
"Making the Difference: Small Town Anywhere" is a short documentary that features a number of professionals in rural Camsack, Saskatechewan, discussing their need for service providers and accessible resources to combat the worsening opioid crisis.…
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…
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…