The information presented in this section has been gathered from the Government of Nunavut website and is meant to provide an overview of key issues and activities for Nunavut. Please help us to keep this section as comprehensive and up to date as possible by contacting us with your comments, revisions, updates and additions.
Key Substance Abuse-Related Agencies
Treatment Agencies in Nunavut
Territorial Drug Strategy or Framework
Substance Use Statistical Highlights for Nunavut
Key Guiding Documents
Key substance-abuse-related agencies
The Nunavut Department of Health and Social Services offers a variety of programs and services to promote, protect and provide for the health and well-being of Nunavut residents, in support of leading self-reliant and productive lives. These services and programs are delivered in diverse locations throughout the communities of Nunavut including clinics, client homes, outpost camps, health centres and at the Baffin Regional Hospital in Iqaluit. Some of the programs and services offered by the department include
- Health promotion and protection
- Mental health services
- Child and family health services
- Addiction services
- Home support and care services
- Social work services
- Public health services
- Community health clinical services
- Disease prevention
- Referral services
- Acute inpatient and outpatient services
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Treatment agencies in Nunavut
Regional Health and Social Services carry out the delivery of addictions and mental health programs and services with local staff. These programs and services include, but are not limited to,
- Counselling clients
- Group healing sessions
- Community wellness workshops
- Screening and referring A&D clients to treatment programs
- Case management
- Crisis management
Nunavut residents may request to be referred to a residential treatment centre outside of Nunavut, as there are no centres in Nunavut. This request can be made to a Wellness Counsellor/Addiction Worker or, if this kind of resource does not exist within the respective community, through the local Health Centre.
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Territorial Drug Strategies or Frameworks
The Nunavut Government has recently approved the “Addictions and Mental Health Strategy”. This Strategy will see the Nunavut Government, in partnership and collaboration with non-governmental organizations and other government departments and agencies, implement a wide range of new and enhanced programs and services. The Department of Health and Social Services has started the implementation priorities and the accountabilities.
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Substance use statistical highlights for Nunavut
Building Nunavut Through Decentralization, Evaluation Report [1,934kb PDF]
Evaluation and Statistics Division, Government of Nunavut, 2002
Inuktitut
2001 Census population counts for Nunavut and the communities (available as .pdf files in Inuktitut, English and French) Nunavut Bureau of Statistics, 2002
Community-level population estimates (trilingual .pdf file) and population projections (trilingual .pdf file); Nunavut Bureau of Statistics, March 2000
"A Critical Review of the Five Year Labour Force Needs Analysis Prepared for Nunavut in 2000", prepared by Brian McDougall, March 2002 (available as .pdf file in English).
The Nunavut 2001 Household Survey, Questionnaire [1,077kb PDF]
Nunavut Bureau of Statistics, Government of Nunavut, 2001
1999 Community Labour Force Survey (available as .pdf files in Inuktitut, English and French) Nunavut Bureau of Statistics, 1999
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Key Guiding Documents
Factors in the Recovery of Individuals in Nunavut Communities [718kb PDF]
Nunavut Wellness Organization, 2003
IIU Network Nunavut Telehealth Project
Health and the Information Highway Division, Health Canada, 2003