Resources

Would you like to learn more about harm reduction, supervised consumption sites, and the toxic drug crisis? Here are a few resources to get you started.

Note: This is not intended to be a comprehensive library — just a few titles to help you along.

Podcasts:

• Crackdown: The drug war, covered by drug users.
• On the ‘Myth of Revitalized Urban Spaces:’ Considering the case of Goudies Lane

Books:

• Maia Szalavitz, Undoing Drugs: How Harm Reduction Is Changing the Future of Drugs and Addiction, 2022.
• Dr. Carl L. Hart, Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear, 2021.
• Benjamin Perrin, Overdose: Heartbreak and Hope in Canada's Opioid Crisis, 2020.
• Maia Szalavitz, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction, 2017.
• Robyn Maynard, Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present, 2017.
• Susan C. Boyd, Busted: An Illustrated History of Drug Prohibition in Canada, 2017.
• Dr. Carl L. Hart, High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society, 2014.

Films/Videos:

• Decriminalize Now: Akia’s Story (HIV Legal Network).
• Harm Reduction Fundamentals (CATIE)
• Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy (National Film Board, Dir. Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, 2021)

Articles:

• The Harms of Constructing Addiction as a Chronic, Relapsing Brain Disease, 2022.
• Whiteness as Property by Cheryl I. Harris, 1993.
• Planning as Property: Uncovering the Hidden Racial Logic of a Municipal Nuisance By-law by Heather Dorries, 2009.
• Urbs Nullius: Gentrification and/as Settler-Colonialism

Organizations:

• Canadian Association of People who Use Drugs (CAPUD)
• Canadian Drug Policy Coalition
• Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy
• Harm Reduction International
• Harm Reduction TO 
• Homeless Hub
• Ontario Drug Policy Research Network
• Ontario Harm Reduction Network
• The Indigenous Harm Reduction Team (IHRT)
• Toronto Harm Reduction Alliance
• Toronto Indigenous Harm Reduction
• Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU)