Annotated Bibliography
Opioid Crisis
The resources below were utilized when comparing Ontario and BC's provincial response to the opioid crisis.
BC Pharmacy Association (2018, November 27). Meet B.C.’s Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Judy Darcy. Retrieved February 16, 2019, from https://www.bcpharmacy.ca/news/meet-bcs-minister-mental-health-and-addictions-judy-darcy
This article is featured in The Tablet. The Tablet features pharmacy and industry news, profiles on B.C. pharmacists, information on research developments and new products. This article introduces BC’s first, and Canada’s only Minister of Mental Health and Addictions in an interview where she discusses the opioid crisis in BC.
BCCDC (2018). By the Numbers: The Opioid Overdose Emergency in BC. Retrieved from http://www.bccdc.ca/resource-gallery/Documents/Educational%20Materials/Epid/Other/Infographic_Opioid_Emergency_in_BC.pdf
This info-graphic, produced by Towards The Heart, an organization providing education to the public about the opioid crisis, contains numbers of opioid related calls, overdoses and deaths in the province of BC for the first half of 2018.
Benzie, R. (2018, July 26). Tories blasted for $335M cut in planned spending on mental health. Retrieved online from https://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2018/07/26/tories-blasted-for-335m-cut-in-planned-spending-on-mental-health.html
Only four months after Ontario’s Liberal provincial government promise of historic contribution to mental health care, this news article published in Queen’s Park, Ontario informs its readers about their new Progressive Conservative Health Minister’s decision to cancel $335 million promised by her Liberal predecessor to mental health funding in their province.
Canada, H., & Canada, H. (2017, August 23). Federal Action on Opioids [transparency - other]. Retrieved February 16, 2019, from https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/substance-use/problematic-prescription-drug-use/opioids/federal-actions.html
A Government of Canada website defining the opioid crisis and inviting the public to review their ‘Joint Statement of Action.’ The Four Pillars Approach is utilized, and links are provided to explore the topic further.
Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction & Health Canada (2017). Joint Statement of Action to Address the Opioid Crisis: A Collective Response (Annual Report 2016–2017). Retrieved online from http://www.ccsa.ca/Resource%20Library/CCSA-Joint-Statement-of-Action-Opioid-Crisis-Annual-Report-2017-en.pdf
This report was released following the Opioid Summit, held in November 2016, and focuses on the progress achieved by non-governmental partners, including health professional associations, national organizations and pan-Canadian health organizations in response to Canada’s opioid crisis.
CMHA Ontario. (n.d.). Mental Health Promotion in Ontario: A Call to Action. Retrieved February 16, 2019, from http://ontario.cmha.ca/documents/mental-health-promotion-in-ontario-a-call-to-action/
The Canadian Mental Health Association of Ontario highlights the critical importance of mental health and discusses some of the social determinants of health that affect it. This website includes statistics about the prevalence of mental illness in Canada and the associated economic burdens. Finally, this site provides recommendations to the provincial government, based on the social determinants of health, to improve the mental health of the province.
House of Commons of Canada. (2017, April 11). GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO THE REPORT OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE ON HEALTH ENTITLED Report and Recommendations on the Opioid Crisis in Canada. Retrieved February 17, 2019, from https://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/HESA/report-6/response-8512-421-134
The Federal Government of Canada’s action plan to deal with the opioid crisis across the country. The Public Health emergency is described and an action plan involving collaboration between provincial governments, municipal governments, regulatory colleges, healthcare providers, front line workers and users of drugs, supported by the Government of Canada is purposed utilizing the Four Pillars Approach.
Keleher H. & Armstrong R. (2006). Evidence based mental health promotion resource. Retrieved online from https://www2.health.vic.gov.au/about/publications/policiesandguidelines/Evidence-based-mental-health-promotion-resource---entire-resource
The city of Victoria, BC’s “Health’s Mental Health Promotion Plan 2005–2007” provides a framework for mental health and wellbeing and is intended to serve as an information resource for practitioners from diverse sectors who are seeking to maximise opportunities to promote mental health and wellbeing through their research, policies and programs. This prioritisation on the determinants of health recognises the changing environment in which we live and reflects the fact that mental health is everybody’s business and that all sectors, including the health sector, have a role to play in addressing those factors that enhance or obstruct mental health and wellbeing.
Lim, K.-L., Jacobs, P., Ohinmaa, A., Schopflocher, D., & Dewa, C. S. (2008). A new population-based measure of the economic burden of mental illness in Canada. Chronic Diseases in Canada, 28(3), 92–98. Retrieved online from https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/phac-aspc/migration/phac-aspc/publicat/hpcdp-pspmc/28-3/pdf/cdic28-3-2eng.pdf
This paper presents a comprehensive measure of the incremental economic burden of mental illness in Canada which incorporates the use of medical resources and productivity losses due to long-term and short-term disability, as well as reductions in health-related quality of life.
Ontario Making Historic Investment in Mental Health Care. (2018, March 21). Retrieved online from https://news.ontario.ca/opo/en/2018/03/ontario-making-historic-investment-in-mental-health-care.html
An announcement from the (Liberal) Office of the Premier to the people of Ontario promising a four-year investment of $2.1 billion to mental health care in the province. Comments from several other Ministers, voicing the importance of mental health care to their respected sector, are included.
Vancouver Coastal Health (n.d.) Insite - Supervised Consumption Site. Retrieved February 17, 2019, from http://www.vch.ca/locations-services/result?res_id=964
Information about InSite, North America’s first supervised injection site as well as the harm reduction model and Vancouver Coastal Health Authority’s addictions continuum of care.