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

• • 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.

• 2016 Greater Victoria unsheltered and sheltered point-in-time count substance use survey
• 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
• Applying the concept of positive deviance to gay men’s group sex events
• 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
• Canadian Student Tobacco, Alcohol and Drug Survey
• Cannabis dialogues
• Capacity building grant to support activities consistent with the BC 10 year plan for mental health and substance use, Healthy Minds, Healthy People
• 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
• Estimating the impact of alcohol use on health harms and the effects of having different price policies in Quebec
• Estimating the impact of socio-economic status on the effectiveness of minimum alcohol pricing in British Columbia, Canada
• Evaluating the impact of a Managed Alcohol Program on the health and well-being of participants
• Evaluating the Impact of Minimum Pricing in Saskatchewan on Crime and Health Outcomes
• 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 relationships with food and substances on campus
• Helping communities
• Helping schools
• Here to Help (information products)
• iMinds drug education
• iMinds gambling education
• Island Health alcohol and other drug treatment services
• Managed alcohol programs: Implementation and effectiveness
• Municipal alcohol policies in BC: exploring best practices
• 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
• Sex workers as educators: networking HIV prevention strategies
• Socio-cultural and environmental health risks and resilience among street-based women and transgender sex workers
• Stigma in Primary Care
• Supporting successful implementation of public health interventions: a realist synthesis
• Systematic error and confounding: Meta-analyses of alcohol and disease
• The economic costs of substance use in Canada
• The impact of minimum pricing on low, medium and high income areas of British Columbia
• The implementation of evidence-based alcohol policies in Canada: a national knowledge translation project
• The Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act: A structural intervention impacting health equity for sex workers
• Treatment and prevention of illicit substance use among pregnant and early parenting women
• Visions: BC's mental health and addictions journal
• Working together: evaluating an integrated model of care for people experiencing homelessness and substance use problems