Matthew Bonn

Program Cooridnator with Canadian Association of People Who Use Drugs., Dalhousie University

Drug Policy & Safe Supply Expert Consultant

Freelance Journalist

Member of the Halifax Area Network of Drug Using People (HANDUP), Lead Drug User Expert with Peers Assisting & Lending Support (PALS).

National Board Member with Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy (CSSDP).

Co-Founder of the HaliFIX Overdose Prevention Society which has implemented Atlantic Canada's first Overdose Prevention Site.

Currently involved with multiple research projects including The COAST Study as an RA, Swimming Against the Current: Looking at Mental Health in the Fishing Industry at Dal's School of Social Work as a RA & Co-Investigator with a project through SMU's Criminology department.

Have received Consultant funding from Abbvie & Gilead.

Experience

2019–present

Assistant researcher, Dalhousie
2018–present

Advocate , Halifax Area Network of Drug Using People
2020–present

Research Coordinator, 7th Step Society of NS
2020–present

Program Coordinator , Canadian Association of People Who Use Drugs
2019–2020

Outreach Worker , Mainline Needle Exchange
2019–2019

Outreach Worker, Hepatitis Outreach Society of NS

Education

Dalhousie, Health Promotion & Sustainability

Publications

2020

Surviving Canada’s overdose crisis under the shadow of COVID-19, The Coast
2020

Now more than ever, we need a safe supply of drugs, CATIE
2020

Addressing Substance Use Stigma, Doctors NS
2019

Can Halifax open Atlantic Canada’s first legal overdose prevention site? Yes, we can!, CATIE
2019

Methadone Access in Prisons: Stop Strip Searching, Impact Ethics
2019

Patient-Centred Care in Opioid Agonist Treatment Could Improve Outcomes, CMAJ
2019

Can Halifax open Atlantic Canada’s first legal overdose prevention site?, CATIE

Grants and Contracts

2019

Hepatitis Micro-Elimination Grant

Role:

Project Lead

Funding Source:

Gilead