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The Toronto Drug Strategy |
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The Toronto Drug Strategy is a comprehensive strategy for the City of Toronto based on four components: prevention; harm reduction; treatment; and enforcement. All four components are needed to effectively reduce the harms of alcohol and other drug use. The vision of the Toronto Drug Strategy is for the "improved quality of life of individuals, families, neighbourhoods and communities in Toronto by creating a society increasingly free of the range of harms associated with substance use".
Implementing the Toronto Drug Strategy
A diverse panel of municipal, institutional and community representatives has been struck to oversee implementation of the drug strategy and to foster the intersectoral co-ordination and co-operation needed to improve the response to substance use issues in Toronto (see below for Panel membership). In addition, a staff secretariat in Toronto Public Health is dedicated to support implementation.
The following Working Groups, with broad community representation, are implementing specific priority recommendations.
- Prevention Working Group
- Crisis Model Working Group
- Neighbourhood Strategies Working Group
- Consumption Site Study Reference Group
Toronto Drug Strategy Implementation Panel
- Mayor's Designate, Toronto City Council
- Medical Officer of Health's Designate, Toronto Public Health
- Deputy City Manager
- Deputy Chief of Police
- Executive Vice President, Centre for Addiction & Mental Health
- President, Toronto Harm Reduction Task Force
- Co-ordinator, Toronto District School Board
- Co-Chair, Addition Treatment Implementation Committee of Toronto
- Executive Director, Parent Action on Drugs
- Executive Director, John Howard Society of Toronto
- Co-ordinator and youth volunteer, Toronto Ravers Information Project
- Peer representative, Finally Understanding Narcotics
- Peer representative, Toronto Harm Reduction Task Force
- Resident Association Representative, 51 Division, Community Police Liaison Committee
- Resident Association Representative, 42 Division, Community Police Liaison Committee
- Program Director, Inner City Health Program, St. Michael's Hospital
Contact information
Contact us if you have any questions or comments about the Toronto Drug Strategy.
Please check back with this web site for future updates.
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