Preventing harm from psychoactive substance use

Recommendation: That the City of School Board, Vancouver Coastal Vancouver, in partnership with the Health and the Vancouver Police Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver Department to implement a compre- Coastal Health and the Centre for hensive prevention strategy for Addictions Research of BC (CARBC) school-aged children and youth, develop and implement a public parents and professionals such as e [...] Recommendation: That the City of a component of the prevention Vancouver support the creation of the strategy that specifically focuses on Four Pillars Literacy Pilot Project to be seniors and problematic substance delivered through the Hastings Institute use, including the use of pharmaceu- and that the Vancouver Agreement ticals. [...] Recommendation: That the City of seek to influence attitudes and norms Vancouver urge the Federal and surrounding substance use and Provincial Governments to give high provide accurate information on priority to the provision of funding for substance use and the relative harm 3,200 supportive housing units and of each of these drugs. [...] Recommendation: That the City continue to build upon current efforts of Vancouver partner with the Centre to address issues related to metham- for Addictions Research of BC, the phetamine (MA) use and include a Vancouver Police Department, health broad-based prevention strategy that professionals and the Alliance of focuses on the individual, family, peer Beverage Licensees (ABLE) to group and com [...] Meeting with The discussion of prevention is context, or it can be residents, city staff and politicians broadened in this plan beyond the in the context of heard the call for a more focused, issue of the relative harm of any symptom coordinated and sustained approach one substance to an understanding management.” to prevention to stop the serious of our relationship as a society to problems with