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How to keep habits in check during COVID-19 crisis

Students take part in ucalgarycares Homelessness at Home program.

Students learn about the homeless experience during immersive four-day program

UCalgary nursing alumna thrives working on Vancouver’s downtown eastside

Lara Nixon is the lead researcher on a new harm reduction project at Peter Coyle Place.

Dollars to action: $1.5M in funding scales up harm reduction services for older adults

Social Work student shares his story to raise awareness about men's mental health and suicide

Worthy opioid harm reduction event

Everyone is worthy of care

We need many more funded research studies to fully understand exactly how CBD might play a role in the treatment of opioid use disorder.

Cannabis: Misinformation about CBD can be life-threatening

Naloxone kits and training are available on campus for students at Student Wellness Services and for faculty and staff through Staff Wellness. Photo by Riley Brandt, University of Calgary

Suspect an opioid overdose? Know the signs

A new gene discovery by a team of University of Calgary researchers has the potential to help yield safer, less expensive synthetic opioid pharmaceuticals. Photos by Riley Brandt, University of Calgary

UCalgary-based team takes big step toward producing safer, less expensive pain-killing medications

Petra Schulz lost her son, Danny, to drug use when he was 25 years old. She now advocates for new prevention, treatment and harm reduction interventions and services.

Video series turns stories of personal tragedy into potent call to action