Resources

This is a list of addiction and harm reduction services and resources in Montréal

Filter the resources below to find what best fits you!

  • ASTTeQ

    Through CACTUS’ needle exchange, ASTT(e)Q provides an array of harm reduction materials, including free condoms, lubricant, and injection materials (including syringes for intramuscular and subcutaneous hormone injection). They also have a CLSC nurse on staff every Monday night from 7-10pm, who can provide free and confidential HIV/STI (blood and sexually transmitted infections) testing, vaccinations and other health services and information.

    • Who is this resource for: Primarily trans people
    • Cost: Free or pay-by-donation
    • Service languages: English, French, Spanish
    • Service locations: Online, email and phone
    • Email: info@astteg.org
    • Phone numbers: 514-847-0067 x207 or x216
    • Website: http://www.astteq.org/index.html
    • Address: 1300 Sanguinet, Montréal, QC H2X 3E7. The office entrance is at 300 Ste-Catherine east, 2nd floor

  • Black Indigenous Harm Reduction Alliance

    Connect Prison Project

    Consists of monthly creative harm reduction and sexual health workshops at Leclerc Institution, the provincial women’s prison in Laval. Their goal is to hold space for discussions that promote health and wellbeing in a prison context, and to break isolation by connecting incarcerated people with members of their communities on the outside.

    Cedar Tree Project

    The Cedar Tea Project is an Indigenous-led outreach initiative in Tiohtiaké supporting street-based members of the community. They distribute food and water, bus tickets, medicines, COVID-prevention supplies, and other harm reduction gear every week to anyone who needs them. 

    (From Website)

    • Who is this resource for: BIPOC
    • Cost: Free
    • Service locations: Online and in person

  • Cactus Montréal

    CACTUS Montréal is a community organization for the prevention of blood-borne (BBSI) and sexually transmitted infections. The organization works with injecting and inhaling drug users, sex workers, and trans people. They promote their health, their well-being and their inclusion in society.

    They assist these individuals through various prevention, awareness and educational services and activities. They remain active in our community to defend their rights and to give voice to their needs and concerns.

    Harm reduction guides all their interventions. Their approach, pragmatic and humanistic, places the participation of people at the core of their action. (From website)

    • Who is this resource for: Primarily drug users, sex workers, trans people, homeless people
    • Cost: Free
    • Service languages: English and French
    • Service locations: Phone, in person, email
    • Email: info@cactusmontreal.org
    • Phone number: 514-847-0067
    • Website: http://cactusmontreal.org/
    • Address: 1300 Rue Sanguinet, Montreal, QC H2X 3E7

  • Centre for Gender Advocacy (Concordia)

    The Centre for Gender Advocacy offer a variety of services including binders, safer sex products and safer drug use products. The Centre also offers the Peer Support and Advocacy (PSA) program, for which you can find more information here. Members of the Center are also available for public interventions (workshops, presentations, guest speakers), please find more information here. (From website)

    Their harm reduction resources fall into three categories: safe sex materials, naloxone, and safe injection materials. As of September 2021, they are tentatively planning on distributing some safe sex materials, and naloxone should soon follow (they’re aiming to be providing some by November or December).

    • Who is this resource for: Primarily trans people, but anyone is welcome
    • Cost: Free and donations accepted
    • Service languages: English and French
    • Service locations: Phone and email
    • Email: peersupport@genderadvocacy.org
    • Phone number: Office 514-848-2424 x7431, Peer Support Line 514-848-2424 x7880
    • Website: http://genderadvocacy.org/
    • Address: 2110 Mackay Street, Montreal, QC H3G 2J1

  • Dopamine

    Offers services such as syringe access services, supervised injection sites, drop-in centre that offers harm reduction materials pertaining to drug use and high-risk sexual behaviour, workshops, support systems for navigating the health system, and outreach.

    • Who is this resource for: Anyone
    • Cost: Free
    • Service languages: English and French
    • Service locations: Phone, email and in person
    • Email: info@dopamine.ca
    • Phone number: 514-251-8872 (See website for street work contact)
    • Website: http://www.dopamine.ca/en/
    • Address: Drop-in Centre – 3591, rue Sainte-Catherine Est, Montréal, Québec H1W 2E6; fixed site and supervised injection service – 4205, Ontario Est, Montréal, Québec H1V 1K2
    • Hours: Drop-in Centre – Monday to Saturday, 09h00-16h30; fixed site and supervised injection service – 7 days a week, 20h00-01h00

  • Drugs: Help and Referral

    Drugs: Help and Referral (DHR) provides support, information and referrals to anyone worried about their use of drugs, alcohol and/or medication, as well as, to their loved ones.

    Support: Difficult situations, an urge to use, risk of relapse?…Their counselors will listen attentively and empathically in order to offer immediate support.

    Information: Their expertise allows them to inform callers on different levels. […] They can also inform their callers on how addiction centers work and on therapy services that can help them.

    Referrals: They refer to available resources in the caller’s area able to meet their needs. (From website)

    • Who is this resource for: Anyone
    • Cost: Free
    • Service languages: English and French
    • Service location: Online, Phone
    • Phone number: Montreal 514-526-2626, Rest of Quebec 1-800-265-2626
    • Website: https://www.aidedrogue.ca/en
    • Hours: 24/7

  • Find a resource that can provide Naloxone

    Select your region from the website to find locations that provide Naloxone kits.

    • Who is the resource for: Anyone
    • Service languages: English and French
    • Cost: Free
    • Website: http://sante.gouv.qc.ca/en/repertoire-ressources/naloxone/

  • Find a verified TSM (Sinclair Method) Physician

    Search the map or enter your location in order to find a physician trained in prescribing and educating on the Sinclair Method.

    • Who is this resource for: Anyone
    • Cost: Free
    • Website: https://cthreefoundation.org/find-a-physician

  • Foster Addiction and Rehabilitation Centre

    Rehabilitation for those with drug, alcohol, and gambling addictions, youth and adult. Community services include: consultation with community organizations, training for professionals who work in schools, and parent groups. (From Website)

    • Who is this resource for: Anyone
    • Service languages: English and French
    • Service location: In person
    • Email:  info@reisa.ca
    • Phone numbers: 514-486-1304 and 1-866-851-2255
    • Website: https://reisa.ca/portfolio-item/foster-addiction-rehabilitation-centre/
    • Address: 3285 Cavendish Blvd., Suite 100, Montreal, QC H4B 2L9

  • Gambling: Help and Referral

    Available 24/7, this specialized helpline is bilingual, free, anonymous and confidential.
    Counselors at Gambling : Help and Referral (From website) …
    – Identify the needs of the callers
    – Assess possible solutions;Suggest relevant courses of action
    – Give referrals to appropriate resources.

    • Who is this resource for: Anyone; specific to gambling addictions
    • Cost: Free
    • Service language: English and French
    • Service location: Online chat available
    • Phone numbers: Montreal 514-527-0140, Rest of Quebec 1-800-461-0140
    • Website: https://aidejeu.ca/en/
    • Hours: 24/7

  • Heads and Hands

    Offers legal clinic, medical walk-in clinic, workshops, and needle exchange.

    • Who is this resource for: Primarily youths aged 12-17 or 12-25
    • Cost: Free
    • Service languages: English, French
    • Service location: In person
    • Email: info@headandhands.ca
    • Phone number: 514-481-0277
    • Address: 3465 Avenue Benny

  • L’Anonyme

    Aims to promote safe behaviours and egalitarian relationships as well as prevent the transmission of sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBI) by an outreach humanist approach. Offers sex education workshops for youth and immigrants, psychosocial support and harm reduction supplies in a mobile format, and a mobile safe injection site.

    • Who is this resource for: Youth aged 12-25, immigrants aged 14-25, people in need of harm reduction supplies or help of all ages
    • Cost: Free
    • Service languages: English and French
    • Service location: Primarily in person

  • Medecins du Monde / Doctors of the World

    A longstanding medical charity focussing on emergency and long-term care to the world’s most vulnerable people, and advocacy to end health inequities. Authorized to provide City of Montreal identification cards to and offers clinic for migrants with precarious status, psychological support services to adults in situations of social exclusion or extreme precariousness, an Indigenous navigator program, a peer-led harm reduction program, and a mobile clinic offering harm reduction supplies and primary care services with a nurse.

    • Who is this resource for: Migrants with precarious status, adults in situations of social exclusion or extreme precariousness, Indigenous people, people who need harm reduction supplies (e.g. drug users, sex workers).
    • Cost: Free
    • Service languages: English, French and Spanish
    • Service location: Primarily in person
    • Email: info@medecinsdumonde.ca
    • Phone numbers: 514-281-8998 (administration); 438-844-5696 (clinic for migrants with precarious status); 514-501-3411 (mobile clinic)
    • Website: https://medecinsdumonde.ca/
    • Address: 560 Boulevard Cremazie

  • Montréal LGBTQ+ Community Centre

    Site for meetings like addiction help, trans support, support for immigrants and refugees, and others.

    They have free condoms and lubricant samples in the bathrooms of the Centre as well as a needle disposal container. They also have a naloxone kit and a Fentanyl test kit. There are several flyers and pamphlets about other organizations, safe-sex practices and so on in their building and office.

    They offer trauma-informed counseling with their LGBTQ+ Compass program for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers and refugees coming to Canada. Members of their Centre can book an appointment with their counselors to prepare for their hearing, and they offer the possibility of booking a meeting for psychological preparation and follow-up as well.

    • Who is this resource for: People of the LGBTQ+ community
    • Cost: Free
    • Service languages: English, French, Spanish and Arabic
    • Email: info@ccglm.org
    • Phone number: 514-528-8424
    • Website: https://ccglm.org/en/
    • Address: 2075 Plessis Street, Suite 110, Montreal, Quebec H2L 2Y4
    • Hours: Monday 14h to 18h; Tuesday 14h to 18h; Wednesday 14h to 18h; Thursday 14h to 18h

  • Project 10

    P10 distributes safer sex and safer injection materials, including: condoms, gloves, fentanyl tests, lubricants, syringes, dental dams, and sharps containers. All of their materials are kept in the bathroom, next to a shower that is available for public use.

    These items are available to all participants, visitors, and members of the community regardless of whether they are active program participants or not, by simply visiting them during their opening hours.

    • Who is this resource for: 14-25 years old, LGBTQ+ youth
    • Cost: Free
    • Service languages: English and French
    • Service locations: Phone and online
    • Phone number:  514-989-4585 (call / text)
    • Website: https://p10.qc.ca
    • Address: 1575 Atataken, Montreal, QC H2L 3L4

  • Quorum Medical Clinic

    Dr. Picard and Dr. Bui-Nguyen of the Quorum Medical Clinic specialize in harm reduction and have been particularly involved in supporting homeless and 2SLGBTQIA+ youth in Montréal.

    • Who is this resource for: Anyone
    • Service language: French
    • Service location: In person
    • Email: info@cliniquequorum.com
    • Phone number: 514-360-0614
    • Website: http://cliniquequorum.com
    • Address: 800, boul. de Maisonneuve Est suite RC-1, Montréal, QC H2L 4L8
    • Hours: With appointment – Monday-Friday 7h45-17h, Saturday 8h30-12h30; without appointment – Monday-Friday 7h45-12h, Saturday 8h30-12h30

  • RAP Jeunesse

    Aims to help through community action disadvantaged and vulnerable adolescents, young adults, and adults from cultural communities in Montreal-Nord, and to advocate on various psycho-social and health issues.

    • Who is this resource for: Many programs aimed at youth and young adults aged 12-25, but harm reduction supplies and referrals are available to anyone
    • Cost: Free
    • Service language: French
    • Service location: In person
    • Phone number: 514-388-7336
    • Website: www.rapjeunesse.org
    • Address: 10 780 rue Laverdure

  • The Addictions Unit, Griffith Edwards Centre

    The Addictions Unit, Griffith Edwards Centre, McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) is a hospital-based addictions service that provides a continuum of care for adults (18 years of age or more) with drug/alcohol and mental health disorders. It consists of inpatient and outpatient services. Although the majority of treatment is provided on an outpatient basis, an integral component of treatment for some is medical detoxification that is conducted on the inpatient psychiatry unit at the Montreal General Hospital. (From Website)

    • Who is this resource for: Anyone
    • Cost: All fees for eligible clients are covered by Quebec Health Insurance
    • Service languages: English and French
    • Service location: In person
    • Phone number: 514 934-8311
    • Website: https://muhc.ca/addictions-unit
    • Address: 1547 Pine Avenue West, Montreal, QC H3G 1B3 

  • Youth Clinic at CLSC Benny Farm & CLSC René Cassin

    Clinic offers services geared towards general health, STI testing, contraception, free Plan B, pregnancy tests, and drug use.

    • Who is this resource for: Youth 12-24 years old
    • Cost: Free
    • Service languages: English and French
    • Service location: In person
    • Phone number: 514-484-7878
    • Address: 6484 Monkland; 5800 Cavendish
    • Hours: Monday 10:00am – 5:30pm (Benny Farm); Tuesday 8:30am – 4:00pm (René Cassin); Wednesday 10:00am – 5:30pm (René Cassin); Thursday 8:30am – 4:00pm (Benny Farm); Friday 10:00am – 5:30pm (Benny Farm)