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Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research: Recent submissions
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(International Journal of Drug Policy, 2023)Background: Alcohol Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) was introduced in Scotland in May 2018. Existing evidence suggests MUP can reduce alcohol consumption in the general population, but there is little research about its impact ...
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(Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports, 2023)Background: Stigma overwhelmingly affects people who inject drugs. The COVID-19 pandemic posed unique challenges for people who inject drugs, who are already stigmatized as being “dangerous and spreading disease.” The ...
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(Preventive Medicine Reports, 2023)Recent evidence suggests there may be no safe level of alcohol use as even low levels are associated with increased risk for harm. However, the magnitude of the population-level health burden from lower levels of alcohol ...
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(International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021)Overdose prevention for people who use illicit drugs is essential during the current overdose crisis. Peer support is a process whereby individuals with lived or living experience of a particular phenomenon provide support ...
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(International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021)People who experience homelessness and alcohol dependency are more vulnerable than the general population to risks/harms relating to COVID-19. This mixed methods study explored stakeholder perspectives concerning the ...
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(Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research, University of Victoria, 2020-03-31)In 2017/2018, the Youth Experiences Project (YEP) surveyed 449 and interviewed 38 youth aged 16-30 in Victoria, Chilliwack, and Prince George. • This report provides findings from YEP that illustrate the impact of ...
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(Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research, University of Victoria, 2020-06-30)In the landscape of illicit drug harm reduction and alcohol policy, there are few options for those impacted by the harms of high risk or illicit drinking (unsafe settings, unsafe sources such as nonbeverage alcohol and ...
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(International Journal of Drug Policy, 2019)Background Drug-related overdoses were declared a public health emergency in British Columbia, Canada in April, 2016 facilitating the scale-up of responses including rapid sanctioning and implementation of overdose ...
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(Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research, 2017-11)This bulletin offers findings from a pilot Peer Health Advocates training program, designed with and for sex workers. It aimed to enhance community empowerment to enable sex workers to shape their practices around health ...
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(Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 2015-09-24)From INEBRIA 12th Congress, Atlanda, GA, USA. 24-25 September 2015
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(International Journal for Equity in Health, 2015-08-25)Introduction: Consumption of substances is a highly controversial behaviour, with those who do so commonly viewed as deviants, even criminals, or else as out of control addicts. In other work we showed that the use of ...
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Primary health care utilization for alcohol-attributed diseases in British Columbia Canada 2001–2011 (BMC Family Practice, 2015-03-11)Background: The purpose of this study was to determine whether general practitioner visits for alcohol-attributed diseases increased in a decade when several regulatory changes were made to the distribution and price of ...
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(Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 2014-09-29)Background: The North American Opiate Medication Initiative (NAOMI) clinical trial compared the effectiveness of injectable diacetylmorphine (DAM) or hydromorphone (HDM) to oral methadone maintenance treatment (MMT). This ...
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(Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2014-06-08)Background: The most widely used maintenance treatment for opioid dependency is substitution with long-acting oral opioids. Treatment with injectable diacetylmorphine provides an opportunity for patients to stabilize and ...
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(BioMed Central, 2008-01-28)Background: In response to a number of court challenges brought forth by Canadian patients who demonstrated that they benefited from the use of medicinal cannabis but remained vulnerable to arrest and persecution as a ...
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(BioMed Central, 2009-02-25)Background: There is little research on the relationship between key socioeconomic variables and alcohol related harms in Australia. The aim of this research was to examine the relationship between income inequality and ...
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(BioMed Central, 2011-07-26)Background: Substitution with opioid-agonists (e.g., methadone) has shown to be an effective treatment for chronic long-term opioid dependency. Patient satisfaction with treatment has been associated with improved addiction ...
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(BioMed Central, 2012-01-25)Background: Substitution with opioid-agonists (e.g., methadone) has shown to be an effective treatment for chronic long-term opioid dependency. Survival sex work, very common among injection drug users, has been associated ...
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(BioMed Central, 2012-01-03)Background: In 2001 Health Canada responded to a series of Ontario court decisions by creating the Marihuana Medical Access Division (MMAD) and the Marihuana Medical Access Regulations (MMAR). Although Health Canada has ...
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(BioMed Central, 2012-10-15)Abstract Retrenchment of government services has occurred across a wide range of sectors and regions. Care services, in particular, have been clawed away in the wake of fiscal policies of cost containment and neoliberal ...
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