Dr. Tim Stockwell
About Tim
Tim held the position of director of the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research from 2004 until 2020. He has also been a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Victoria since 2004. He has published over 400 research papers, book chapters and monographs, plus several books on prevention and treatment issues.
Dr. Stockwell was engaged in both clinical and research work in the UK before spending 16 years with Australia's National Drug Research Institute as deputy director and then director. He studied psychology and philosophy at Oxford University and obtained a PhD at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London. In 2018, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and was president of the international Kettil Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcohol, 2005-2007. He received the 2013 EM Jellinek Memorial Award for outstanding research on social, cultural and policy aspects of alcohol with special mention of his work on minimum alcohol pricing. He also received a 2014 Health Research leadership award from Research Canada on behalf of CISUR.
Tim is committed to the advancement of public policy on substance use issues, and has established CISUR as a research institute which aims to shed light on the social, cultural and psychological determinants of harmful substance use, which applies rigorous measures of patterns of use and related harms, and which advances knowledge of effective policy and practice.
His research interests include: prevention of alcohol and other drug related harm; alcohol and other drug policy; measurement of alcohol consumption and related harms; public health and safety impacts of substance use; alcohol harm reduction; and regulatory policies to reduce alcohol-related harm.
Videos of Tim
Projects
- Alcohol, energy drinks and other stimulants: An emergency room study assessing the effects of gender, context and substance use on injury risk
- An estimation of the health and economic costs of alcohol use in Finland and the impact on these of the privatization of the Finnish government alcohol monopoly, Alko
- An evaluation of alternative methods of presenting health risks of alcohol to young adults
- An evaluation of the impact of the Sudbury Managed Alcohol Program
- An evaluation of the Kwae Kii Win Centre alcohol management program, Thunder Bay, Ontario
- An updated rapid review on the potential effectiveness of alcohol warning labels
- An updated systematic review and meta-analysis of alcohol use and all-cause mortality
- A review of the evidence regarding alcohol and COVID-19
- Assessing the impacts of cannabis legalization on traffic-related injuries among youth and adults in Alberta and Ontario
- A study of unintended consequences of increased minimum alcohol prices in a population of street involved alcohol dependent drinkers
- BC Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) monitoring project
- BC Co/Lab
- Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation
- Canadian Substance Use Costs and Harms (CSUCH)
- Cannabis Substitution of Alcohol as a Component of Managed Alcohol Programs: Pilot Intervention and Evaluation
- Clearing the air: a systematic review of the evidence on the harms and benefits of e-cigarettes and vapour devices
- Developing an Internet based resource for reporting alcohol attributable harm in Australia
- Does minimum pricing reduce the burden of disease and illness attributable to alcohol?
- Effects of COVID-19 on alcohol and cannabis sales and alcohol- and cannabis-related hospitalizations and deaths in BC
- Estimating the impact of alcohol use on health harms and the effects of having different price policies in Quebec
- Estimation of impacts on premature death, injury and hospitalisation of alternative approaches to federal alcohol taxes
- Evaluation of the public health impacts of Systembolaget, the Swedish government alcohol monopoly
- Impact of alcohol labelling on health outcomes in Canada
- KnowAlcohol.ca: an Alcohol and Health Web App
- Managed alcohol and cannabis substitution: A feasibility study
- Modelling the relationship between tax and price policies and impacts on alcohol consumption and harms in different socio-economic groups in Canada
- Northern Territories Alcohol Labels Study
- Pilot evaluation of a BC managed alcohol program
- Stakeholder evaluation of impacts of a national alcohol policy implementation review across all provinces and territories
- Strengthening the foundation of the home: Developing staff wellness strategies in Indigenous alcohol harm reduction services
- The Canadian Managed Alcohol Program Studies (CMAPS)
- The impact of immediate roadside prohibitions for drinking drivers on alcohol-related collisions
- The International Model of Alcohol Harms and Policies (InterMAHP)
- The potential impact of alcohol minimum unit pricing and alcoholic beverage labelling as a cancer prevention intervention in Canada, by socioeconomic status, at the national, provincial and territorial levels
- The promotion of alcohol consumption in bars through social media: an assessment of compliance of digital promotions with traditional alcohol advertising regulations in Canada
- Youth Experiences Project: Police discretion with youth who use illicit substances
Publications
- A comparison of private and government-controlled liquor stores in British Columbia
- A Cost-Benefit Analysis of a Canadian Managed Alcohol Program
- Addiction research centres and the nurturing of creativity: the Centre for Addictions Research of BC, Canada
- Adolescent substance use and related harms in British Columbia (PDF 524kb)
- Alcohol and health in Canada: A summary of evidence and guidelines for low-risk drinking (PDF 882kb)
- Alcohol consumption and injury
- Alcohol consumption and mortality among Canadian drinkers: A national population-based survival analysis (2000–2017)
- Alcohol consumption in British Columbia and Canada: A case for liquor taxes that reduce harm (PDF 334kb)
- Alcohol consumption in injuries
- Alcohol outlet densities and alcohol price: The British Columbia experiment in the partial privatization of alcohol sales off-premise
- Alcohol policy and public health implications in a global perspective. In: Alcohol and injuries (PDF 96kb)
- Alcohol pricing, public health and the HST: Proposed incentives for BC drinkers to make healthy choices (PDF 402kb)
- Alcohol pricing and public health in Canada: Issues and opportunities (PDF 1mb)
- Alcohol retail privatisation in Canadian provinces between 2012 and 2017. Is decision making oriented to harm reduction?
- Alcohol sales in Canadian liquor outlets as a predictor of subsequent COVID-19 infection rates: a time-series analysis
- An adaptation of the Yesterday Method to correct for underreporting of alcohol consumption and estimate compliance with Canadian low risk drinking guidelines
- An assessment of federal alcohol policies in Canada and priority recommendations: Results from the 3rd Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation Project
- An examination of injection drug use trends in Victoria and Vancouver, BC after the closure of Victoria's only fixed-site needle and syringe programme
- A review of research into the impacts of alcohol warning labels on attitudes and behaviour (PDF 1mb)
- Assessing the impacts of Saskatchewan's minimum alcohol pricing regulations on alcohol-related crime
- Assessing the implementation of evidence-based alcohol policies on Atlantic Canadian post-secondary campuses: A comparative analysis
- Associations Between COVID-19 Alcohol Policy Restrictions and Alcohol Sales in British Columbia: Variation by Area-based Deprivation Level
- A systematic review of relative risks for the relationship between chronic alcohol use and the occurrence of disease
- Baseline Assessment of Alcohol-Related Knowledge of and Support for Alcohol Warning Labels Among Alcohol Consumers in Northern Canada and Associations With Key Sociodemographic Characteristics
- Book chapter: Lessons learned from the alcohol regulation perspective
- Caffeinated alcoholic beverages in Canada: Prevalence of use, risks and recommended policy responses
- Calling time on low-risk drinking guidelines: An evaluation of alternative methods to communicate risks of alcohol use to consumers
- Calorie Intake from Alcohol in Canada: Why New Labelling Requirements are Necessary
- Canada’s cannabis legalization and drivers’ traffic-injury presentations to emergency departments in Ontario and Alberta, 2015-2019
- Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation (CAPE): Federal Results
- Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation (CAPE): Policy Domain Results (Federal)
- Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation (CAPE) 3.0: Best Practice Policy Leaders (Provincial/Territorial)
- Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation (CAPE) 3.0: Methodology and Evidence (Federal and Provincial/Territorial)
- Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation (CAPE) 3.0 Project: Policy Domain Results Summary (Provincial/Territorial).
- Cancer Warning Labels on Alcohol Containers: A Consumer’s Right to Know, a Government’s Responsibility to Inform, and an Industry’s Power to Thwart
- Cannabis use in British Columbia: Patterns of use, perceptions, and public opinion as assessed in the 2004 Canadian Addiction Survey (PDF 1mb)
- Clearing the Air: A systematic review on the harms and benefits of e-cigarettes and vapour devices
- Clearing the air: protocol for a systematic meta-narrative review on the harms and benefits of e-cigarettes and vapour devices
- Commentary – Problematic substance use or problematic substance use policies?
- Communicating risks to drinkers: testing alcohol labels with a cancer warning and national drinking guidelines in Canada
- Community managed alcohol programs in Canada: Overview of key dimensions and implementation
- Concordance of self-reported drug use and saliva drug tests in a sample of emergency department patients
- Counting the cold ones: A comparison of methods measuring total alcohol consumption of managed alcohol program participants
- Does Drinking Within Low-Risk Guidelines Prevent Harm? Implications for High-Income Countries Using the International Model of Alcohol Harms and Policies
- Does knowing alcohol causes cancer improve support for alcohol policies?
- Does managing the consumption of people with severe alcohol dependence reduce harm? A comparison of participants in six Canadian managed alcohol programs with locally recruited controls
- Do managed alcohol programs change patterns of alcohol consumption and reduce related harm? A pilot study
- Do relaxed trading hours for bars and clubs mean more relaxed drinking? A review of international research on the impacts of changes to permitted hours of drinking (PDF 198kb)
- Drug use trends in Victoria and Vancouver, and changes in injection drug use after the closure of Victoria’s fixed site needle exchange (PDF 919kb)
- Effects of strengthening alcohol labels on attention, message processing, and perceived effectiveness: A quasi-experimental study in Yukon, Canada
- Estimation of the impacts of substance use on workplace productivity: a hybrid human capital and prevalence-based approach applied to Canada
- Evaluating cannabis substitution for alcohol within the context of a Canadian managed alcohol program
- Evaluating Effectiveness of Alcohol Harm Reduction and Housing Instability (PPT) (PDF 1mb)
- Evaluating potential bias using the case-crossover usual frequency method to estimate risk of injury due to alcohol (PDF 199kb)
- Évaluation des politiques canadiennes sur l’alcool (CAPE) 3.0 Résultats fédéraux
- Evaluation of a managed alcohol program in Vancouver, BC: Early findings and reflections on alcohol harm reduction
- Every Washroom: De facto consumption sites in the epicenter of an overdose public health emergency
- Examining the Impact of Alcohol Labels on Awareness and Knowledge of National Drinking Guidelines: A Real-World Study in Yukon, Canada
- Factors associated with public injection and nonfatal overdose among people who inject drugs in street-based settings
- Factors Related to Simultaneous Cocaine and Alcohol Use for Clients in Treatment
- Finding safety: A pilot study of Managed Alcohol Program participants' perceptions of housing and quality of life
- Finnish alcohol policy at the crossroads: The health, safety and economic consequences of alternative systems to manage the retail sale of alcohol
- Functions and harms associated with simultaneous polysubstance use involving alcohol and cocaine
- Health profiles of clients in substance abuse treatment: A comparison of clients dependent on alcohol or cocaine with those concurrently dependent
- How do people with homelessness and alcohol dependence cope when alcohol is unaffordable? A comparison of residents of Canadian managed alcohol programs and locally recruited controls
- How many alcohol-attributable deaths & hospitalizations could be prevented by alternative pricing and taxation policies? Modelling impacts on alcohol consumption, revenues & related harms in Canada
- How much did you actually drink last night? An evaluation of standard drink labels as an aid to monitoring personal consumption
- How much did you actually drink last night? An evaluation of standard drink labels as an aid to monitoring personal consumption
- How much does alcohol increase women's risk of breast cancer compared to non-drinkers? (PDF 63kb)
- How should we label our alcohol? (PDF 726kb)
- Impact on alcohol-related mortality of a rapid rise in the density of private liquor outlets in British Columbia: A local area multi-level analysis
- Improving Knowledge that Alcohol Can Cause Cancer is Associated with Consumer Support for Alcohol Policies: Findings from a Real-World Alcohol Labelling Study
- Is alcohol consumption a risk factor for prostate cancer? A systematic review and meta–analysis
- Is there a ‘low-risk’ drinking level for youth? The risk of acute harm as a function of quantity and frequency of drinking
- Legalization of Cannabis in Canada: Implementation strategies and public health
- Market share of alcohol products and price incentives (PDF 176kb)
- Méthodologie et revue des éléments probants (à l’échelle fédérale, provinciale et territoriale)
- Minimum alcohol prices and outlet densities in British Columbia, Canada: Estimated impacts on alcohol-attributable hospital admissions
- Minimum unit pricing for alcohol saves lives, so why is it not implemented more widely?
- Misleading UK alcohol industry criticism of Canadian research on minimum pricing
- Model-based appraisal of alcohol minimum pricing in Ontario and British Columbia
- Model-based appraisal of alcohol minimum pricing in Ontario and British Columbia: A Canadian adaptation of the Sheffield Alcohol Policy, Model Version 2 (PDF 1mb)
- News Media and the Influence of the Alcohol Industry: An Analysis of Media Coverage of Alcohol Warning Labels With a Cancer Message in Canada and Ireland
- Nonfatal overdose from alcohol and/or drugs among a sample of recreational drug users
- Northern Territories Alcohol Label Study: Baseline Report Executive Summary
- Overdose events in British Columbia: Trends in substances involved, contexts and responses (PDF 585kb)
- Patterns of risky alcohol use in British Columbia: Results of the 2004 Canadian Addiction Survey (PDF 522kb)
- Per adult consumption of alcohol in British Columbia: 2002 to 2005. In: Mapping Substance Use in BC and Canada (PDF 265kb)
- Prevalence report 2008-12: Alcohol, cannabis, cigarettes & other drugs in BC & other provinces (PDF 262kb)
- Prevalence report 2008-12: Alcohol, cannabis, cigarettes & RX drugs in BC & other provinces (PDF 391kb)
- Prevalence report 2008-12: Cocaine, ecstasy, heroin & other drugs in BC & other provinces (PDF 341kb)
- Prevention of Alcohol-related Injuries
- Pricing of alcohol in Canada: A comparison of provincial policies and harm-reduction opportunities
- Projet 3.0 de l’Évaluation des politiques canadiennes sur l’alcool (CAPE) : Résumé des résultats par domaines d’action (provinciaux et territoriaux)
- Reducing alcohol harms whilst minimising impact on hospitality businesses: ‘Sweetspot’ policy options
- Reducing alcohol-related harms and costs in Alberta: A Provincial summary report (PDF 285kb)
- Reducing alcohol-related harms and costs in British Columbia: A provincial summary report (PDF 553kb)
- Regional variations and trends in substance use and related harm in BC (PDF 349kb)
- Relationships between minimum alcohol pricing and crime during the partial privatization of a Canadian government alcohol monopoly
- Relationships Between Minimum Alcohol Pricing and Crime During the Partial Privatization of a Canadian Government Alcohol Monopoly
- Risk of injury due to alcohol: Evaluating potential bias using the case-crossover-usual-frequency method
- Risk of injury from alcohol, marijuana and other drug use among emergency department patients
- Risk of injury from drinking: The difference which study design makes
- Sales and Revenue from Regulated Cannabis Products in BC: October 2018-December 2020
- Scale up of Managed Alcohol Programs
- Selection biases in observational studies affect associations between ‘moderate’ alcohol consumption and mortality
- Sexual identity and drug use harm among high-risk, active substance users
- Stratégies pour réduire les méfaits et les coûts liés à l’alcool au Canada : Une revue des politiques Fédérales
- Stratégies pour réduire les méfaits et les coûts liés à l’alcool au Canada : Une revue des politiques provinciales et territoriales (sommaire)
- Strategies to reduce alcohol-related harms and costs in Canada: A comparison of provincial policies
- Strategies to reduce alcohol-related harms and costs in Canada: A comparison of Provincial policies (PDF 385kb)
- Strategies to Reduce Alcohol-Related Harms and Costs in Canada: A Review of Federal Policies
- Strategies to Reduce Alcohol-Related Harms and Costs in Canada: A Review of Provincial and Territorial Policies
- Surveillance and monitoring of acute alcohol-related problems in the emergency room. In: Alcohol and injuries (PDF 116kb)
- Surveillance systems and trauma care: What can be done in the emergency department? In: Prevention of alcohol-related injuries in the Americas (PDF 319kb)
- Testing alcohol container warning labels among alcohol consumers in the field over a 4-week period: a protocol for a randomized field trial
- Testing Alcohol Labels as a Tool to Communicate Cancer Risk to Drinkers: A Real-World Quasi-Experimental Study
- Testing for cannabis in the workplace: A review of the evidence
- Testing the Effectiveness of Enhanced Alcohol Warning Labels and Modifications Resulting From Alcohol Industry Interference in Yukon, Canada: Protocol for a Quasi-Experimental Study
- The Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation project: Findings from a review of provincial and territorial alcohol policies
- The effect of types of postsecondary education on drinking: Does age of enrollment matter?
- The effects of alcohol container labels on consumption behaviour, knowledge, and support for labelling: a systematic review
- The Effects of Alcohol Warning Labels on Population Alcohol Consumption: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis of Alcohol Sales in Yukon, Canada
- The impact of alcohol minimum pricing policies on vulnerable populations and health equity: A rapid review
- The impact on alcohol-related collisions of the partial decriminalization of impaired driving in British Columbia, Canada
- The introduction of Happy Hours to bars, pubs and clubs in Victoria, BC: Did alcohol become cheaper? (PDF 149kb)
- The Potential Health Impact of an Alcohol Minimum Unit Price in Québec: An Application of the International Model of Alcohol Harms and Policies
- The potential of alcohol labelling to promote public health and safety in Canada: A Rapid Review
- The price of getting high, stoned and drunk in BC: A comparison of minimum prices for alcohol and other psychoactive substances (PDF 423kb)
- The raising of minimum alcohol prices in Saskatchewan, Canada: Impacts on consumption and implications for public health
- The rate ratio of injury and aggressive incident for alcohol alone, cocaine alone and simultaneous use before the event: A case–crossover study
- The relationship between alcohol problems, perceived risks and attitudes toward alcohol policy in Canada
- The relationship between changes to minimum alcohol prices, outlet density and alcohol-attributable deaths in British Columbia, 2002-2009
- Towards alcohol harm reduction and housing stability: Preliminary findings of Thunder Bay managed alcohol programs (PDF 645kb)
- Trajectories of Alcohol Use and Related Harms for Managed Alcohol Program Participants over 12 Months Compared with Local Controls: A Quasi-Experimental Study
- Use as directed: do standard drink labels on alcohol containers help consumers drink (ir)responsibly? Real‐world evidence from a quasi‐experimental study in Yukon, Canada
- What are the public health and safety benefits of the Swedish government alcohol monopoly?
- Who under-reports their alcohol consumption in telephone surveys and by how much? An application of the ‘yesterday method’ in a national Canadian substance use survey
- “If I knew I could get that every hour instead of alcohol, I would take the cannabis”: need and feasibility of cannabis substitution implementation in Canadian managed alcohol programs