Clinical guidelines and best practices
- A Guideline for the Clinical Management of Opioid Use Disorder (B.C. Centre on Substance Use)
- National Guideline for the Clinical Management of Opioid Use Disorder (Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse)
- Best Practices across the Continuum of Care for the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder (Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction)
- Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder during Pregnancy for prescribers, pharmacists and other health care practitioners (B.C. Centre on Substance Use)
- Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder for Youth (B.C. Centre on Substance Use)
- OAT with slow-release oral morphine (B.C. Centre on Substance Use)
- Injectable Opioid Agonist Treatment: iOAT for Opioid Use Disorder (Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse)
- PEER Simplified Guideline: Managing Opioid Use Disorder in Primary Care
- Canadian Guidelines on Opioid Use Disorder among Older Adults (Canadian Coalition for Seniors’ Mental Health)
Continuing education
- Catalogue of OAT training across Canada for prescribers, pharmacists and other health care practitioners (Mental Health Commission of Canada)
- Pain and addiction education programs and resources for prescribers in Canada (Michael G. DeGroote National Pain Centre). The list includes courses on prescribing opioids for pain and for using opioids to treat opioid use disorder.
- Alberta Opioid Dependency Treatment Virtual Training program
- CAMH Opioid Use Disorder Treatment course
- CAMH Buprenorphine-Naloxone Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder course
- CAMH Opioid Dependence Treatment certificate program
- College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba Opioid Agonist Treatment Prescriber Training program
Resources for OAT patients, families and friends
- Making the Choice, Making It Work: Treatment for Opioid Addiction (free PDF)
- Opioid Agonist Therapy: Information for Clients (free PDF)
- “How opioid overdoses occur” YouTube video (Michael G. DeGroote National Pain Centre). This short video explains how opioid overdoses occur and how safe consumption sites and naloxone kits can help.