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- This fact sheet provides information for service providers on how to educate and support clients to inject fentanyl and heroin more safely. Fentanyl and heroin are opioids. Opioids slow the body down…
- This fact sheet provides information for service providers on how to educate and support clients to smoke crack cocaine more safely. Crack cocaine is a stimulant. This means that it speeds the body…
- This fact sheet provides information for service providers on how to educate and support clients to smoke crystal meth more safely. Crystal meth is a stimulant. This means that it speeds the body up…
- This fact sheet provides information for service providers on how to educate and support clients to reduce harms associated with snorting drugs. Drugs that can dissolve well in water can be snorted…
- This fact sheet provides information for service providers on how to educate and support clients to more safely smoke drugs using foil. Foil is used as a surface to smoke drugs (sometimes known as “…
- This fact sheet provides a snapshot of the hepatitis C epidemic in Canada.
- Welcome to the second edition of A Practical Guide to HIV Drug Side Effects, published by CATIE (Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange). Thanks ...
- Nausea, or feeling sick to your stomach, is something everyone feels sometimes. It can also lead to vomiting, or throwing up. ...
- If you are experiencing sleep problems, keep a sleep diary for the week before you see your doctor. It may provide useful information to help diagnose some of the problems.
- Some people with HIV experience emotional problems such as anxiety, depression, sleep disorders and nightmares, or mental ...
- For many people who have a menstrual cycle, their period occurs monthly at a predictable time, lasts for the same amount of time from one month to the next and has with a flow that they come to…
- Medications often produce more than one effect in the body. In the case of antibiotics, for example, there is the desired effect (killing a bacterial infection) and there are also unintended effects…