People who use substances can experience health complications, yet healthcare providers often feel ill-equipped to provide substance-use related care. This has resulted in many people who may benefit from substance use treatment, not being offered, referred to, or able to access evidence-based care. There is an urgent need to ensure that frontline healthcare providers, other professionals and people with lived and living experience of substance use have easy access to up-to-date information about best practices and standards of care.

The Zoom rounds will generally take place on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 12pm MST.

If you are interested in participating, please sign up here to receive your invitations.

 If you are interested in being a speaker, please email Dr. Denise Adams (denise.adams@ualberta.ca) with a brief description of your topic idea.

These rounds align with CRISM’s goals[1] of:

  1. Using strength in numbers to unite the Prairie Provinces — these sessions provide a valuable opportunity for clinicians and researchers across the Prairies to share their work and collaborate across provincial boundaries
  2. Exploring diverse pathways to recovery — by creating a virtual and accessible platform for information sharing and dialogue, more people can be engaged, and multidirectional learning can occur
  3. Building capacity — these rounds provide an opportunity for education, collaboration and discussion

Steering Committee

  • Kathryn Dong, MD; Mohit Singh, MD; Kay Rittenbach, PhD; Shohan Illsley, MS; Liris Smith, PhD; Colleen Dell, PhD; Denise Adams, PhD

Webinars and recordings

Sept 17, 2025 Dr. Elaine Hyshka recording

  • Supervised consumption services: Current evidence and future directions
  • At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
    1. Recognize the scale and drivers of the drug poisoning crisis
    2. Describe SCS implementation in Canada
    3. Identify future directions for scientific research on SCS

Oct 8, 2025 Dr. Meldon Kahan recording

  • META:PHI and Rapid Access Addiction Medicine clinics: Grassroots innovation in the delivery of addiction treatment
  • At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
    1. Describe the rationale and core principles of Ontario’s Rapid Access Addiction Medicine clinics
    2. Discuss how META:PHI is responding to the challenges facing RAAM clinics in delivering care

Nov 19, 2025 Dr. David Crockford

Dec 17, 2025 Dr. David Hodgins and Dr. Didier Jutras-Aswad

 

[1] Canadian Institutes of Health Research. CRISM Prairies: Understanding addiction pathways, strengthening support systems, and shaping evidence-based policies for a healthier future https://cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/53690.html Accessed January 15, 2025.

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