Reducing substance-related harms in Bruce and Grey counties
As a collaborative of public service providers, businesses and community members, it is our mission to improve the health and wellbeing for individuals, families and communities in Bruce and Grey counties by reducing health and social harms associated with substances.
There is a lack of identity and history. There is a need for a connection, a human need for love and belonging and if it’s not there, our people may turn to something else”
Local service provider
In Canada, there are more hospitalizations caused by alcohol than heart attacks.
Canadian Institute for Health Information
Staying well is about reaching out. Finding that connection”
Client of CMHA Grey Bruce Mental Health and Addiction Services
More than half of substance-related ER visits in Grey Bruce involve alcohol.
Grey Bruce Health Unit
50% of cannabis users don’t think that cannabis use affects their driving. But studies show cannabis use can impair driving and is associated with an increased risk of collisions.
Canadian Cannabis Survey
Substance related ER visit rates more than doubled between 2001 and 2015
