Bevel Up – Drugs, Users and Outreach Nursing

Bevel Up, is an award-winning documentary and learning resource to help healthcare workers deliver compassionate care to people who use drugs. Now, it is available for the first time as free online harm reduction content at NFB.ca

Created in 2007 by the outreach nursing team from the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) and co-produced with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), Bevel Up is designed to give students and instructors in the healthcare field access to the knowledge and experience of pioneering practitioners. Watch and learn as street nurses in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside deliver nonjudgmental, compassionate and trauma-informed health care to people who use drugs.

Still relevant today in light of Canada’s current overdose crisis, Bevel Up has been designed in a multifaceted format ideally suited to the web and social media using 10 educational playlists that include:

• The original 45-minute documentary
• 40 additional clips illustrating key issues and interviews with the experts — people who use drugs and healthcare practitioners
• A 100-page Teacher’s Guide
• A total of 4.5 hours of content