About the Drug Strategy Network of Ontario
The Drug Strategy Network of Ontario (DSNO) (formerly Municipal Drug Strategy Coordinator's Network of Ontario - MDSCNO) was established in 2008 and its members live and work in more than 160 urban, northern, rural, remote, and Indigenous communities across Ontario, representing a combined population of more than seven-million people. With a wide range of substance use related expertise, the network coordinates more than forty local, cross-sectoral, community, municipal or regional-based drug strategies.
The DSNO aims to reduce the harms associated with alcohol and other drugs in Ontario, including addressing systemic issues like health and social policies and the criminalization of people who use substances”. It is a place for collaboration and information exchange, and for developing strategies that lend support to provincial, regional, and local community initiatives. The DSNO is also a place for peer-to-peer support and connection, with a focus on strengthening and enhancing the continuity of local drug strategy governance and human resources. DSNO is the only network of its kind in the province – filling a gap in cross-sector capacity-building, knowledge exchange, and collaboration to reduce the harms associated with substance use. We do this work with these values in mind:
The DSNO is overseen by a volunteer Stewardship Group and receives no operational funding. From time-to-time, project funding or in-kind contributions allow for paid staff coordination of the network. The DSNO is an unincorporated organization that has signed a Partnership Agreement with Moyo Health and Community Services - a service provider for Peel’s communities of Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon (CHARITY NO. 13829 4640 RR0001). Through this Partnership Agreement, Moyo assumes the legal and financial responsibility for DSNO project deliverables and project funds, offers mentorship, and provides administrative support to DSNO. For more information and to become a member, please contact us. |
What is a drug strategy?
Local Ontario drug strategies involve individuals with lived or living experience of the harms associated with substance use, and individuals from the nonprofit, private, and public sectors.
Drug strategies are based on a four pillar, evidence-based model for reducing the harms associated with substance use: prevention, harm reduction, treatment and recovery, and community safety.
A drug strategy is a shared effort to mitigate harms related to substance use in a community.
Drug strategies are based on a four pillar, evidence-based model for reducing the harms associated with substance use: prevention, harm reduction, treatment and recovery, and community safety.
A drug strategy is a shared effort to mitigate harms related to substance use in a community.
Drug Strategy Efforts in Ontario
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Brantford-Brant Community Drugs Strategy
Chapleau Community Drug Strategy
Chatham-Kent Drug Awareness Council
Dufferin Drug Strategy
Eastern Ontario
Elgin Community Drug & Alcohol Strategy (Elgin-St. Thomas)
Fort Frances
Fort William First Nation Healing Strategy
Community Drug & Alcohol Strategy: Reducing substance-related harms in Bruce and Grey counties
Haldimand Norfolk
Haliburton, Kawartha Lakes, Northumberland (HKLN) Drug Strategy
Hamilton Drug Strategy
Hastings Prince Edward County
Huron-Perth Harm Reduction & Opioid Drug Strategy
Kenora Substance Abuse and Mental Health Task Force
Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington (KFL&A) Community Drug Strategy
LaCloche Foothills Drug Strategy
County of Lambton's Drug and Alcohol Strategy
Brockville Municipal Drug Strategy (Lanark and the United Counties of Leeds & Grenville)
Manitoulin Island Drug Strategy
Middlesex-London Community Drug and Alcohol Strategy
Niagara Region
Community Drug Strategy North Bay and Area
Ottawa
Oxford County Community Drug & Alcohol Strategy
Parry Sound Drug Strategy
Peel Integrated Drug Strategy
Peterborough Drug Strategy
Sault Ste Marie and Area Drug Strategy
Sioux Lookout
Simcoe Muskoka Opioid Strategy
Six Nations Integrated Drug Strategy
Community Drug Strategy for the City of Greater Sudbury
Sudbury East Community Drug Strategy
Thunder Bay Drug Strategy
Timiskaming District Drug & Alcohol Strategy
Timmins and Area Drug Strategy
Toronto Drug Strategy
Waterloo Region Integrated Drugs Strategy
Wellington Guelph Drug Strategy
Windsor Essex Community Opioid and Substance Strategy
York Region Opioid Education and Response Workgroup
Chapleau Community Drug Strategy
Chatham-Kent Drug Awareness Council
Dufferin Drug Strategy
Eastern Ontario
Elgin Community Drug & Alcohol Strategy (Elgin-St. Thomas)
Fort Frances
Fort William First Nation Healing Strategy
Community Drug & Alcohol Strategy: Reducing substance-related harms in Bruce and Grey counties
Haldimand Norfolk
Haliburton, Kawartha Lakes, Northumberland (HKLN) Drug Strategy
Hamilton Drug Strategy
Hastings Prince Edward County
Huron-Perth Harm Reduction & Opioid Drug Strategy
Kenora Substance Abuse and Mental Health Task Force
Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington (KFL&A) Community Drug Strategy
LaCloche Foothills Drug Strategy
County of Lambton's Drug and Alcohol Strategy
Brockville Municipal Drug Strategy (Lanark and the United Counties of Leeds & Grenville)
Manitoulin Island Drug Strategy
Middlesex-London Community Drug and Alcohol Strategy
Niagara Region
Community Drug Strategy North Bay and Area
Ottawa
Oxford County Community Drug & Alcohol Strategy
Parry Sound Drug Strategy
Peel Integrated Drug Strategy
Peterborough Drug Strategy
Sault Ste Marie and Area Drug Strategy
Sioux Lookout
Simcoe Muskoka Opioid Strategy
Six Nations Integrated Drug Strategy
Community Drug Strategy for the City of Greater Sudbury
Sudbury East Community Drug Strategy
Thunder Bay Drug Strategy
Timiskaming District Drug & Alcohol Strategy
Timmins and Area Drug Strategy
Toronto Drug Strategy
Waterloo Region Integrated Drugs Strategy
Wellington Guelph Drug Strategy
Windsor Essex Community Opioid and Substance Strategy
York Region Opioid Education and Response Workgroup