Cannabis
Information and resources about cannabis, including risks, harms and legal status.
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Tags:Annual reports from the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction recap key initiatives for the past fiscal year.
Tags:In March 2019, CCSA brought more than 60 professionals together in Ottawa to share ideas and make plans to “spread and embed” the Brain Story science in their networks. The goal of the Brain Builders Lab was to pave the way for policies, practices and public perceptions around substance use to alig…
Tags:Information and resources about the costs and harms of substance use in Canada.
Tags:Jill’s areas of expertise include substance use health, lived expertise with substance use and mental health peer support.
Tags:Using the Competencies for Canada’s Substance Use Workforce is an evidence-informed way to ensure services are provided consistently across the wide range of backgrounds and settings in the substance use field, including among both regulated and unregulated professionals who support this work. T…
The professionalism and success of the substance use field depends on the quality of the workforce— the employees and volunteers—it engages. Using competencies in the hiring process provides a structured way to help an employer identify and assess candidates who best align with the job and the o…
Evaluating the Short-Term Impacts of Cannabis Legalization on Alcohol Consumption, Co-occurring Cannabis and Alcohol Consumption, and Alcohol Consequences Among Adolescents and Adults in Ontario Imtiaz, S., Agic, B., Elton-Marshall, T., Hamilton, H. A. 0, Jiang, H., Mann, R. E, Sanches, M., Shie…
Investigating the Impacts of Cannabis Retail Policy on the Health of Canadians: evidence generation using pan Canadian health administrative data Myran, D., Tanuseputro, P., Auger, N., Konikoff, L., Talarico, R., Finkelstein, Y., Gaudreault, A., Pacula, R. The objectives of this research proj…
Understanding the relationship between recreational cannabis use and mental health in a marginalized population Barr, A. M., Panenka, W. J., MacCallum, C. A., Lo, L. A., Yau, J. C.., Rintoul, K., & Schjelderup, L. This study aimed to understand cannabis use in a disadvantaged group of peo…