This webinar highlights a newly published peer-reviewed study, “I Won’t Make It Without This Program”: The Impact of Safer Opioid Supply Program Closures in Ontario, Canada.
The session features insights from research team members Farihah Ali, Andrzej Celinski, and Andrew Shaw, who will discuss the study’s findings and their implications.
This timely conversation explores how deprescribing practices, program shutdowns, and policy shifts are affecting people who rely on safer opioid supply. The speakers delve into both the personal and system-level consequences of losing access to these programs, offering a grounded picture of what clients are experiencing in the current landscape.
Presented in partnership with the Substance Use Health Network, CRISM, and the RECLAIM Collective, the webinar brings together researchers, service providers, and people with lived experience for a critical dialogue on the impacts of safer supply — and what program closures mean for the communities they serve.