Projects
Featured Projects
The Canadian Managed Alcohol Program Study (CMAPS)
What is a Managed Alcohol Program (MAP)? Where are they being implemented? Are they effective? CISUR is leading CMAPS, a Canada-wide study on Managed Alcohol Programs.
BC AOD Monitoring Project<
CISUR's BC Alcohol & Other Drug (AOD) Monitoring Project is an extensive survey of substance and alcohol use in the province. Use our interactive AOD Trend Analyzer tool to explore the BC health trends that interest you.
The Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research is committed to both conducting high-quality research and contributing to constructive communication and cooperation between producers, intermediaries and users of various types of knowledge. This knowledge is vital to the implementation of evidence-based policy and practice related to substance use, addiction and related harms in our province and beyond. Ultimately, we aim to promote health for everyone in our society. This involves attention to
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- the epidemiology of substance use,
- population level and the setting of specific health promotion strategies, and
- treatment systems and innovative intervention programs.
Active projects
The following is a current A-Z list of active projects. You can also view information on some of the archived projects CISUR has been involved in previously.
- Alcohol, energy drinks and other stimulants: An emergency room study assessing the effects of gender, context and substance use on injury risk
- Alcohol and other drug screening and education
- 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 an alcohol labelling intervention to raise awareness of health harms, low-risk drinking guidelines and standard drink contents of alcohol containers: a comparison of two northern Canadian cities
- An evaluation of the public health and safety impacts of the 2014 BC Liquor Law reforms
- An Indigenous equity lens for public health
- BC alcohol and other drug (AOD) monitoring project
- Building capacity for effective drug education
- Canadian Student Tobacco, Alcohol and Drug Survey
- Changing the culture of substance use on campus
- Clearing the air: a systematic review of the evidence on the harms and benefits of e-cigarettes and vapour devices
- Compulsory addiction treatment: toward evidence-based policy and practice
- Developing an Internet based resource for reporting alcohol attributable harm in Australia
- Equity lens in public health (ELPH) reducing health inequities: The contribution of core public health services in BC
- Equity Oriented Primary Healthcare Interventions for Marginalized Populations: Addressing Structural Inequities and Structural Violence (EQUIP)
- Estimating the impact of alcohol use on health harms and the effects of having different price policies in Quebec
- Evaluating the Impact of Minimum Pricing in Saskatchewan on Crime and Health Outcomes
- Evaluation of an inpatient Addictions Medicine Consult Service in Island Health
- Evaluation of the public health impacts of Systembolaget, the Swedish government alcohol monopoly
- From research to practice: addressing the gaps in entry-to-practice HIV nursing competencies in Canada
- Gambling online resource
- Gender, violence and health: Contexts of vulnerabilities, resiliencies and care among people in the sex industry
- Healthy Minds | Healthy Campuses
- Healthy mothers, healthy families: Evaluating integrated treatment for pregnant and parenting women with addictions
- Healthy relationships with food and substances on campus
- Helping communities
- Helping schools
- Here to Help (information products)
- iMinds drug education
- iMinds gambling education
- Investing in Police and Non-Profit Organizational Partnerships to Enhance Responses to Sexual Assault of Sex Workers
- Island Health alcohol and other drug treatment services
- Let's Talk Cannabis
- Opioid Dialogues
- Opioid overdose crisis response
- Police discretion with high risk substance using youth
- Preventing and reducing harms of substance use in homeless shelter programs
- Reducing Stigma in Primary Care
- Sex workers as educators: networking HIV prevention strategies
- Socio-cultural and environmental health risks and resilience among street-based women and transgender sex workers
- Supporting successful implementation of public health interventions: a realist synthesis
- Systematic error and confounding: Meta-analyses of alcohol and disease
- The Canadian Managed Alcohol Program Study (CMAPS)
- The economic costs of substance use in Canada
- The implementation of evidence-based alcohol policies in Canada: a national knowledge translation project
- The promotion of alcohol consumption in bars through social media: an assessment of compliance of digital promotions with traditional alcohol advertising regulations in Canada
- The Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act: A structural intervention impacting health equity for sex workers
- Visions: BC's mental health and addictions journal
- Working together: evaluating an integrated model of care for people experiencing homelessness and substance use problems