Ottawa, August 29, 2022 — Updates to Canada’s Low-Risk Alcohol Drinking Guidelines (LRDGs) are entering the final stages. The Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) is holding a four-week, online…
Christopher Cull is a filmmaker, the founder of Inspire by Example and creator of a clothing line to bring awareness to the issues around the prevention and treatment of drug misuse across Canada.
The National Treatment Indicators (NTI) project is led by the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA), in collaboration with the NTI Working Group.
Date: September 14, 2020, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m., EST – Register now
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The aim of CAPU project was to understand the role of cannabis use on mental health and substance disorders. CAPU had three complementary objectives, with a project to match each of the following objectives.
Summarizes six research papers on various public safety aspects of cannabis legalization, which were presented at the Public Safety and Cannabis: Taking Stock of Knowledge Since Legalization symposium in January 2022.
Summarizes the effects of minimum legal drinking age legislation on mortality, morbidity, motor vehicle collisions and crime among young people. Data indicates that drinking-age laws have a significant impact on youth mortality rates.
Matthew Young has been working in the field of substance use and addiction for over 20 years and leads CCSA’s substance use epidemiology research activities, which includes co-chairing the scientific committee tasked with estimating the economic…
Includes findings from our November 2022 submission to the federal government’s public consultation on cannabis legalization, A Public Health Perspective on…
As a research scientist in epidemiology and health economics, with a focus on alcohol and other substances, I found your article comparing alcohol non-users to free-riders to be light on fact and heavy on opining for a bygone, Mad Men–like era,…
Alcohol and tobacco together cause the most harm—by a large margin
Matthew Bonn has living experience with substance use and has survived many toxic drug events. His substance use has led him to being incarcerated and contracting hepatitis C, but it has also led him to getting involved with substance use health–…
