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Choose what fits. You can change direction anytime.
One useful step
Choose a question, a short guide or a lesson. No account or personal story required.
Memory aid. Follow the full instructions below. Motion is off.
Emergency action comes first
Cannot wake them, or breathing is slow, weak or not normal? Call 911 now. Do not wait for every sign, a video, a buddy check-in or 4:19.
Suspect an opioid overdose?
Give another dose after 2–3 minutes if there is no response, following the kit and dispatcher. Naloxone can wear off; the overdose can return. Call 911 even without naloxone.
Naloxone does not reverse every kind of poisoning. After immediate care is covered, warn others using verified advisories. Protect the person’s privacy.
In Canada, calling for emergency help during an overdose provides some legal protection from simple-possession charges and certain related breaches of conditions. It is not blanket immunity. Learn what the law covers.
Possible opioid overdose
General Canadian guidance—not a substitute for hands-on training. Health Canada: naloxone · Ottawa Public Health: response and breathing support. Emergency wording source-checked October 13, 2026; independent clinical review of TRDP wording remains pending.
Need a paper copy? Print this guide for a plain, readable version with source links.
Back to “What brings you here?” ↑Free resources · pass them on
Our free TRDP safety resources are here to be shared and printed. Send a link to someone you care about, keep a paper copy with your kit, or share resources at a workplace or community space with permission. No account, donation or promise is required.
Colour Your Own Kind of Care. Ten colouring bullet journal pages for care, moods, harm reduction, support and small wins, plus front and back covers. Includes the TRDP logo.
Print on Letter at 100%, or choose Fit for A4.
Download the free DOPE Journal (12-page PDF)Call. Give. Support. Stay. Warn. Open the card to share or print the response steps.
Open the TRDP safety cardA reminder to pause, connect and prepare before a possible risk. Use “Print my checklist” for a paper copy.
Open the 4:19 checklistChoose a topic, then use its share or print controls. Safety knowledge belongs with people who use substances and people who do not.
Browse the free guidesDownload the free slides and facilitator notes to support a conversation about overdose response.
Download the free presentationKeep the safety instructions, source links, dates and TRDP credit intact when passing resources on. Check the current page before reprinting. Sharing is always your choice; respect people’s privacy.
Call for artistic contributions · DOPE PRESS
Artists, illustrators, photographers, comic makers and collage creators: contribute your perspective to the TRDP zine. We welcome art about dignity, belonging, community, everyday joy and our shared message: Safety Is for Everyone. Emerging artists and people with lived or living experience are welcome. Disabled and 2SLGBTQ+ artists are warmly invited, including work celebrating Disability Pride and 2SLGBTQ+ Pride. No personal disclosure is required.
Full credit given for every published contribution. Choose the name or pseudonym you want us to use, and include a portfolio or social link if you would like it credited. You keep ownership of your work; publication permission, any edits and your credit will be agreed by email before we publish it.
Email an artwork preview, portfolio link or idea to therealdopeproject@gmail.com with the subject “TRDP Zine Art.” Include a brief description and how you would like to be credited. Send original work you have permission to share, and get consent before including identifiable people or their stories.
Email your zine artwork or ideaThe Real DOPE Project (TRDP) is an independent Canadian harm-reduction education, research and design initiative rooted in Niagara, Ontario.
Our guiding principle is Safety Is for Everyone.
That includes people who use substances, people who don’t, families, neighbours, workplaces, people in recovery—and people who oppose drug use. You do not have to agree about drugs to care whether someone survives.
TRDP brings together public-health evidence, lived and living experience, accessible design and creative advocacy. We are developing practical education and tools to help people understand overdose prevention, prepare to respond, challenge stigma and advocate for accessible care.
We believe lifesaving information and human dignity should never depend on abstinence, someone’s circumstances or another person’s approval. Essential safety information stays free.
TRDP is a developing initiative. This website provides general education; it is not an emergency service or clinical provider.
Everyone has a place in this
Opioid overdose can happen with prescribed or unregulated drugs. Opioids can also be present in drugs someone did not expect to contain them. An overdose can slow or stop breathing. Read Health Canada’s explanation.
Families, friends, neighbours, people who use substances, people in recovery and people who oppose drug use can all learn to help.
TRDP’s position: lifesaving knowledge, emergency care and dignity should be available to everyone.
Disability Pride · 2SLGBTQ+ Pride · access
Safety Is for Everyone includes disabled people and Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and other sexual and gender diverse people. You belong here whether you use substances, do not use, are making changes or are supporting someone.
Disability is part of human diversity. Visible or non-apparent, your disability does not reduce your worth or your right to make choices. TRDP welcomes disabled people’s knowledge, creativity and leadership.
People use different language for themselves. We respect your choice of identity-first or person-first language. You do not need to prove your disability or share a diagnosis to use these resources or report an access barrier.
Your sexuality, gender, chosen name and pronouns deserve respect. TRDP welcomes 2SLGBTQ+ people’s knowledge, creativity and leadership, and celebrates belonging and everyday joy.
Being 2SLGBTQ+ does not mean someone uses substances or is in crisis. You do not need to disclose your identity to read, share or print our resources.
People can belong to both communities and many others. We welcome your perspective without asking you to speak for everyone who shares an identity.
Use our larger-text and print controls, or share a link with someone who prefers a different way to read. If a page, control or resource is hard to use, tell us what would help. Include the page link and your preferred format if you can; personal health details are not needed.
We are working toward better accessibility. A full human accessibility review remains pending; we do not claim the site meets every access need.
Email therealdopeproject@gmail.com, or use the optional website feedback form. Want to contribute creatively? Help illustrate our zine; every published contribution receives full credit under your chosen name.
Learn before a crisis
You can ask for information or support before, during or after use, and in treatment or recovery. You decide which conversation is useful.
For non-medical substance use, not using is the safest option. That is not advice to stop prescribed medication or abruptly stop when dependence is present. Read the withdrawal warning below.
You deserve practical support, whether or not you want to stop. Ask about dependence, changing tolerance, reducing use or taking a break—without promising abstinence.
You can start with: “I want help reducing risk. What support can I use now?” Explore Canadian substance-use support options. Entry requirements vary.
StreetWorks in Niagara offers harm-reduction supplies, navigation and naloxone information. For alcohol, cannabis, nicotine, opioids or prescribed-medication questions, explore Health Canada’s substance information and ask a pharmacist or clinician about your situation. Naloxone reverses opioid effects; it is not an antidote for every substance.
You can say, “No thanks. I’m not using.” You do not owe an explanation. Ask for plans that include you, arrange a way home and leave if you want to. You can seek support for stress, loneliness or pressure without substance use being part of your story.
Kids Help Phone offers youth counselling at 1-800-668-6868. ConnexOntario helps find mental-health support at 1-866-531-2600. Helping someone else remains your choice. Everyone can learn overdose response and naloxone use.
Help without judgment. A buddy is not a clinician, a guarantee of safety or a replacement for emergency help.
You deserve support too. ConnexOntario can help families find services; Moms Stop The Harm links to Holding Hope family-support groups. Start with “What would help you right now?” Listen without demanding a confession, diagnosis or commitment to treatment.
Explore the existing teen learning companion. It is a teaching adaptation, not a validated course. Do not assume a young person uses substances.
Choose a safety role
Agree on the role before an outing. Take turns on different outings—not after someone has already used an impairing substance.
You never owe anyone a yes. You can join the night, change your mind, or leave without explaining yourself.
Across different outings, rotate who stays substance-free, keeps a phone and naloxone accessible, knows the location, checks that people can be woken and are breathing normally, and calls 911 if something is wrong.
Choose before the outing: no alcohol, cannabis or other impairing substances, and no driving while impaired. Do not stop prescribed medication to take this role. Ask a pharmacist about driving effects; arrange another driver or safe ride if needed.
A buddy lowers isolation; they do not make substance use safe. Use supervised services where available. If someone cannot be woken or is not breathing normally, call 911 immediately—do not wait for a scheduled check-in.
Prepare before an emergency
Naloxone temporarily reverses an opioid overdose. Ask for a demonstration when you get your kit.
Emergency now? Call 911 and follow the response steps. Do not travel to find a kit during an emergency.
Ask: “Do you have a free take-home naloxone kit, and can you show me how to use it?” Call ahead to check stock.
In Ontario, participating pharmacies provide free kits without a prescription or Ontario health card.
Use Ontario’s directory to find another pharmacy or community provider. Check hours and call ahead to confirm stock.
Find another kit provider ↗A pharmacist or harm-reduction service can demonstrate your kit. Check its expiry and storage instructions.
Watch the Canadian demonstration ↗Video and transcript. Emergency now? Do not watch a training video first.
Free workplace awareness course: Learn overdose emergency response with TRDP.
Free illustrated public course
The public deserves to know, too. Seven self-guided modules on substance use, dependence, stigma, choices, safety and evidence—with everyday scenarios and answer explanations.
You do not need a diagnosis, personal story or promise to stop. People who use occasionally, use for enjoyment, do not use or support someone all belong in the conversation.
Open the free coursePublic education, not professional certification or medical advice. Version 1.1 learning draft · October 7, 2026. Independent review and effectiveness have not been established.
Free workplace awareness course
A 25-minute session with 16 slides, facilitator notes, nasal naloxone instructions, a practice scenario and a quick quiz.
Call 911. Give naloxone if available. Support breathing as directed. Stay until emergency services take over.
WARN (OTHERS): After immediate care is covered, share dated advisories or observed concerns. Say what is confirmed and what is uncertain. Protect people’s privacy.
It could save somebody’s life.
Download the free training presentation
Canadian awareness education. This session does not provide first aid certification or establish workplace training compliance. Follow the exact kit instructions and local emergency plan.
One question each day
Learn one thing that could help someone. A new question appears each day at midnight, Niagara time.
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An emergency happening now? Go to the response steps and call 911. The quiz is for learning before an emergency.
Your initials. Your knowledge check.
Seven questions about overdose response and naloxone. Get your score and learn the reasons behind each answer.
This quiz is awareness education, not first aid certification or proof that someone can manage an emergency. Need help now? Call 911 and use the response steps.
A little learning each day
Read a short lesson and answer one question each day. Miss a day? Your progress stays. Return whenever you can.
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If someone cannot wake up or is not breathing normally, call 911 now. Emergency response steps.
The 4:19 Safety Check
4:19 is one intentional minute before 4:20, or before another moment of increased substance-related risk. Pause. Connect. Prepare. Consider what has changed. This TRDP check is designed to support safer decisions; it cannot make substance use risk-free or guarantee survival.
Preparation, before an emergency. The 4:19 Safety Check is for preparation before a possible risk. If an overdose may be happening, call 911 immediately. Do not delay emergency action to finish the check. Go to emergency response.
Never give food or drink to someone drowsy or unresponsive. Do not stop prescribed medicines to drive or act as a buddy; ask a pharmacist about impairment and interactions.
Your selections are not sent to TRDP or saved by this checklist. Reloading resets them. This website does not monitor you, send alerts or summon help.
Download the checklist as plain text (.txt). To save a PDF, use “Print my checklist” and choose your browser’s Save as PDF option.
Paper copy from therealdopeproject.com · Educational prototype; effectiveness has not been established. Selections are preparation reminders, not a safety assessment.
After immediate care is covered, share dated advisories or observed concerns. Say what is confirmed and what is uncertain. Protect people’s privacy.
Do not delay emergency care, name people or share identifying photos. Warn before, during or after a risk when appropriate; while responding to an emergency, care comes first.
Before possible recreational substance use, notice changes in health, tolerance, supply, setting, or who is nearby. Read the withdrawal caution below before stopping or reducing use.
If possible, do not use alone. Use a supervised service where available, or arrange for someone you trust to check in and call for help.
Keep naloxone within reach. Tell others where it is, keep a phone nearby, and make sure someone knows the location.
Mixing substances and changes in tolerance or supply can raise overdose risk. Stop and seek help when effects are unexpected.
Share dated warnings or observed concerns, label uncertainty and protect privacy. Emergency care comes first.
Updated October 3, 2026. The linked public-health sources support the safety information; the TRDP checklist itself has not been clinically validated. Independent clinical and lived-experience review remains pending. Report unclear wording or a broken link.
Make readiness a shared expectation
TRDP calls for easy-to-reach naloxone, understandable training and care without stigma. People should be able to prepare before an emergency.
Choose one barrier and one achievable improvement: clearer signs, reachable kits, accessible training or a better referral. Download TRDP’s free workplace awareness presentation. These are TRDP’s advocacy requests, not a statement of legal requirements or measured results.
TRDP is in development. These pathways reuse existing education and link to public guidance; they are not a clinically validated program. Their impact has not been measured.
September 26 source checks cover national surveillance, overdose response, naloxone, tolerance, withdrawal and the linked support providers’ published information. These are not real-time stock, eligibility or access checks. The Ontario kit map could not be directly retrieved; kit access was corroborated by official search results and local providers. Independent clinical, lived/living-experience and human accessibility reviews remain pending. Earlier records retain their individual review dates.
For project questions, collaboration inquiries, feedback, accessibility concerns or corrections:
Email: therealdopeproject@gmail.com
Based in: Thorold, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada
Please avoid sending private health information. This email is not an emergency response service. In an emergency, call 911.
These materials remain in development. Their individual review dates still apply; this page update does not mean all earlier content has been verified again.
Count accurately. Remember fully.
Official surveillance documents the scale of harm. It cannot hold the full weight of grief, disability, survival, or futures interrupted. We honour people by keeping both the numbers and their limits visible.
Canada · January 2016–March 2026
57,509The latest four quarters are preliminary and may change. From 2025, the national total includes deaths related to all unregulated drugs in British Columbia and drug- or opioid-related intoxication in Quebec. Definitions and reporting coverage affect comparisons.
Health Infobase · updated September 22, 2026Niagara · January–July 2026
Verification pendingSee Niagara Region’s dashboard for reported EMS responses to suspected opioid overdoses. TRDP’s earlier January–July 2026 total is awaiting independent verification against the underlying monthly records.
EMS responses are not confirmed overdoses, unique people, or deaths. Dashboard figures may be revised. No independently verified total is presented here.
Read the dated correctionNiagara Region dashboard
More than a number
Parents. Children. Partners. Friends. Workers. Creators. Neighbours. People with unfinished futures. A record of death cannot tell the whole story of a person’s humour, work, relationships, or survival. Their lives mattered before the emergency. They matter in how we respond now.
Remember the person, their relationships, and their life beyond a substance or diagnosis.
Bring safety information and human support within reach before a crisis.
Carry naloxone. Call for help. Stay. Learn and share what you know. Challenge dehumanizing language.
Niagara · Every day
August 31 is International Overdose Awareness Day. TRDP’s call extends across the year: keep naloxone close, make services easier to reach, listen to people closest to risk, and keep preventable harm on the public agenda.
Official local information
Overdose prevention and local resources
Start with Niagara Region’s overdose-prevention information and local support links. Confirm services and availability directly before travelling; a familiar location or an old listing may no longer reflect current access.
Open Niagara Region resourcesCommunity connection
StreetWorks harm-reduction support across Niagara
StreetWorks offers harm-reduction supplies, system navigation, education, and mobile support. Its published information also describes naloxone training and free kits. Contact the team to confirm the service, location, and schedule you need.
Open StreetWorks support informationNo one outside the circle
TRDP advocates for safety that reaches people across diagnoses, ages, incomes, housing situations, and legal circumstances. Treatment entry, abstinence, or somebody else’s judgment of “readiness” should never be the price of dignity or emergency help.
Precision is rebellion
People use prescribed, regulated, and unregulated substances across communities. Use precise language: a substance, a pattern of use, a diagnosis, and an emergency are different things. A label should help people understand what is happening, not erase who someone is.
Not every person who uses a substance has a substance use disorder. Use, intoxication, dependence, withdrawal, poisoning and substance use disorder are not interchangeable terms.
Substance use disorder is a treatable health condition. A diagnosis describes a health need; it does not define a person’s worth, character, or future.
Recovery is personally defined. It may include abstinence, medication, reduced use, safer practices, stability, connection, improved health, or a changed relationship with substances.
Avoiding recreational substance use avoids exposure to its risks. If you may be physically dependent—especially on alcohol or benzodiazepines—get medical advice before suddenly stopping or sharply reducing use; withdrawal can be dangerous. Do not stop prescribed medication without advice from your prescriber. If use happens anyway, accurate information, emergency care, pain care, dignity, and protection from preventable harm still belong to that person.
Clear answers
TRDP is not an emergency service or clinical provider. This website offers general education. If someone cannot be woken or is not breathing normally, call 911 and follow the dispatcher’s directions.
DOPE, SAFE, WATER and the 4:19 Safety Check are TRDP working frameworks and educational tools. The emergency actions draw on public-health guidance. This does not establish the effectiveness of the branded tools as a whole. Clinical validation and effectiveness of these tools have not been established.
The safety information on this website is free to read and share. Future collaboration and licensing ideas are in development; they are not a promise of an available service.
You can say no without explaining, set boundaries, arrange a way home and seek support for your own wellbeing. Helping others is optional. Everyone can learn overdose response and naloxone use. A substance-free buddy or designated driver can help others but cannot guarantee safety or replace emergency care.
No. People who use and people who do not can learn about tolerance, dependence, withdrawal, poisoning and emergency response. A person can ask about reducing use, taking a break, treatment or other support at any time. Tolerance may fall after a break, which can raise overdose risk if opioids are resumed. Sudden alcohol or benzodiazepine reduction can be dangerous when dependence is present, so seek medical advice.
Codes for a safer future
TRDP created these working frameworks to organize a humane response. DOPE describes how we meet people. SAFE names the essentials we advocate for. WATER guides the next step through a system. They express an approach to practise and evaluate. DOPE, SAFE, WATER and the 4:19 Safety Check are TRDP working frameworks and educational tools. The emergency actions draw on public-health guidance. This does not establish the effectiveness of the branded tools as a whole. Clinical validation and effectiveness of these tools have not been established.
how we show up
what people need
how systems respond
Keep safety free. Build with nerve.
Essential lifesaving knowledge stays free. TRDP is developing future possibilities for facilitation, customization, accessible design, implementation, evaluation, sponsorship, and responsible licensing. Each will depend on readiness, qualified review, capacity, and appropriate partnerships. An ambition is not an available service.
TRDP is an independent education, research, and design initiative—not an emergency service, clinical provider, surveillance authority, government agency, or official International Overdose Awareness Day campaign partner.
TRDP guide updated September 26, 2026. Emergency and naloxone guidance source-checked September 26; independent clinical review of TRDP wording remains pending. Follow the dispatcher and your kit.
Bold claims need visible foundations
A powerful sentence still needs to be true. TRDP distinguishes source facts, interpretation, advocacy, metaphor, lived and living knowledge, and calculations. Check the linked sources and the dates beside changing information. Where evidence stops, certainty must stop too.
Emergency guidance: Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada. Checked September 26, 2026. Follow your kit and dispatcher. This source review is not independent clinical validation.
When emergency help is sought for an overdose, the Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act provides some protection from simple-possession charges and certain related breaches of conditions. It can protect the caller, the person experiencing the overdose, and others at the scene when help arrives. It does not protect against outstanding warrants, production, trafficking, or other offences.
Correction route: email TRDP with this page’s URL, the exact statement, and the supporting source. See the dated correction log below.
Use TRDP’s machine-readable identity, source-linked claim records, and claim boundaries. The short answers, evidence status, and AI reading guide share the same content record. Cite this public page and its primary sources. Do not convert advocacy, framework definitions, provisional figures, or derived calculations into established clinical facts.
TRDP allows public search and cited-answer discovery, including OAI-SearchBot, while declining GPTBot model-training access.
A source and editorial review, not a clinical review or certification. Status is recorded for individual claims; a page review date does not mean every claim is verified.
Supported · preliminary data included
PHAC reports 57,509 apparent opioid toxicity deaths for January 2016–March 2026.
The latest four quarters are preliminary and may change. From 2025, the national total includes deaths related to all unregulated drugs in British Columbia and drug- or opioid-related intoxication in Quebec. Definitions and reporting coverage affect comparisons.
Status reviewed:
Link to this evidence noteVerification pending
See Niagara Region’s dashboard for reported EMS responses to suspected opioid overdoses. TRDP’s earlier January–July 2026 total is awaiting independent verification against the underlying monthly records.
EMS responses are not confirmed overdoses, unique people, or deaths. Dashboard figures may be revised. No independently verified total is presented here.
Status reviewed:
Link to this evidence noteOfficial guidance
Call 911, give naloxone if available, follow the kit and dispatcher’s directions for rescue breathing or CPR, give another dose after 2–3 minutes if there is no response, and stay until help arrives.
Naloxone acts temporarily on opioids. Effects can return after it wears off. General education does not replace dispatcher or kit instructions.
Status reviewed:
Link to this evidence noteWithdrawal qualification
Avoiding recreational substance use avoids exposure to its risks. If you may be physically dependent—especially on alcohol or benzodiazepines—get medical advice before suddenly stopping or sharply reducing use; withdrawal can be dangerous. Do not stop prescribed medication without advice from your prescriber.
Risk depends on the substance and the person’s situation. Seek individual medical advice.
Status reviewed:
Link to this evidence noteProject definitions · effectiveness not established
DOPE, SAFE, WATER and the 4:19 Safety Check are TRDP working frameworks and educational tools. The emergency actions draw on public-health guidance. This does not establish the effectiveness of the branded tools as a whole. Clinical validation and effectiveness of these tools have not been established.
A source for an emergency action is not an evaluation of a branded framework.
Status reviewed:
Link to this evidence noteAdvocacy position
TRDP opposes shame, dehumanization and criminal penalties for simple personal possession.
This is TRDP’s ethical and policy position, not a description of current Canadian law or a demonstrated intervention effect.
Status reviewed:
Link to this evidence note· Version 3.12
Feedback is now available on public resource pages with a resource selector for pages, homepage tools and downloads. Each submission stores its selected resource and site-release version. Older homepage feedback remains attributed to the homepage. Feedback remains voluntary, privately reviewed and separate from public endorsement.
· Version 3.11
Emergency response, finding support and learning one thing now lead the homepage. Longer existing resources use expandable panels; source wording and earlier review dates remain unchanged. A private five-minute usability pilot plan is prepared; no sticker stock, distribution, recruitment or effectiveness is claimed.
· Version 3.6
Added an explicit Pride welcome, respect for self-chosen language, names and pronouns, and a contact route for access barriers. Invited disabled and 2SLGBTQ+ artists to contribute to the zine with full credit. Identity, diagnosis and personal disclosure are not required to use resources. Accessibility review remains pending; this update is not a certification. Earlier evidence-review dates remain unchanged. Added alternate-format guidance and plain-text downloads generated from the shared response steps, checklist and guide content.
· Version 3.5
Added homepage invitations to share and print free TRDP resources and contribute artwork to the zine. Published artwork receives full credit under the contributor’s chosen name, with permission and edits agreed by email before publication. Added print controls to the safety card and share/print controls to all 25 guides. Resource links now use therealdopeproject.com. Earlier evidence-review dates remain unchanged.
· Version WARN update
Added WARN (OTHERS) to the shared response summary, safety card, preparation checklist, guides and teen safety section. Expanded preparation to food, sleep, hydration, recovery time, interactions, safe transport and storage, drug checking, equipment and disposal. These reminders do not guarantee safety; food, sleep and water do not prevent overdose, and a negative test cannot establish safety. Emergency care comes before warning others. Earlier source vintages retain their own dates.
· Version 3.4
Overdose and naloxone knowledge remain for everyone. Added need-based support routes, including support for people who do not use substances. Safety-card usage counting now requires an optional affirmative choice; activity labels describe recorded actions rather than confirmed sharing or health outcomes. Counts before this change were not opt-in.
· Version 3.4
Updated the national total to PHAC’s September 22 release: 57,509 apparent opioid toxicity deaths, January 2016–March 2026. Corrected the broader British Columbia and Quebec category start to 2025. The latest four quarters are preliminary. Differences between releases should not be interpreted as deaths in a particular interval because revisions and coverage also affect totals.
· Version 2.3
The earlier page showed 947 EMS responses for January–July 2026. That total has not been independently verified against Niagara Region’s monthly source records. It has been removed from the headline statistics and retained here only as an unverified previous claim; it should not be cited as a verified total.
· Version 2.3
Removed a jurisdiction-count qualifier that was not established for the full Canadian cumulative period. Added dependence and withdrawal cautions, separated emergency response from the preparation check, and clarified that the 4:19 Safety Check shares the unvalidated status of TRDP’s other branded tools.
Open call for reviewers
Professionals and everyday readers are welcome. You do not need qualifications to tell us what makes sense, what feels respectful or what is hard to use. Lived and living experience matters; sharing your personal story is optional.
Got 5–7 minutes? Try finding the emergency information, then explore one learning resource on your phone. Tell us what worked—or what needs fixing. Only have a minute? Try one page and tell us one thing to improve.
We welcome harm-reduction workers, peer workers, healthcare professionals, researchers, educators and accessibility specialists. Review one resource within your expertise for accuracy, evidence, safety, language or access barriers. Please include a supporting source when flagging a factual correction.
Skip questions or stop anytime. No name, email or mailing address is needed to use the feedback form. Honest criticism is welcome. Participation is voluntary and does not imply endorsement or clinical validation. This is a website review: do not place a test emergency call.
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Learn and help others
25 short guides for everyone across Canada. Understand substance-related risks, practise saying no, recognize an emergency, and help others without stigma.
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