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Urgent and Long Overdue: Legal Reform and Drug Decriminalization in Canada

The RSC Policy Briefing entitled “Urgent and Long Overdue: Legal Reform and Drug Decriminalization in Canada” is now freely and publicly available here. 

“Criminalization of substance use is a strategy that perpetuates harm and stigma. In this report, we consider Canada's past and current approach to substance use, joining the call for a new path forward rooted in a human rights approach," said Co-Chair of the Working Group, Vanessa Gruben.

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Lessons from Canada’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the path forward: Launch of a Series in The BMJ



COVID-19 led directly to 52,750 deaths in Canada with more than 4.6 million reported cases as of June 2023. This death rate of 1.372 per million exceeds the global average of 855 per million. What did we learn from this experience and how do we prepare for future health and public health crises?

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