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Promoting health, reducing harm. Official account of UVic's Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research. Facebook: facebook.com/UVic.CISUR
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"It's pretty clear to to me that politics are limiting the scale up of the response to the toxic and unregulated drug crisis." CISUR/UVic HSD Research's Bernie Pauly (she/her) on CBContheisland. cbc.ca/listen/live-ra…
Got a spare 10mins? Watch our film on Alcohol and Cancer, with Professor Linda Bauld. We discuss: 🍷How alcohol causes cancer 🎗️Which types of cancer ❓Low public awareness 🏭Why the industry doesn't want people to know 🔽How to reduce cases youtube.com/watch?v=NAJ88Y…
Good exploration of the research and communication of alcohol's health impact from BBC World Service 's Food Chain series. A reasoned (and sober!) discussion featuring Tim Stockwell from CISUR and David Spiegelhalter bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…
After tragic overdose death of first year @UVic student, 1,600 #naloxone kits are available at all B.C. post-secondary institutions, by loriculbert vancouversun.com/health/uvic-tr… via The Vancouver Sun #HarmReduction #ToxicDrugCrisis #HigherEd
#Nursing is harm reduction: Providing care in the midst of our #overdose crisis By Leigh Chapman RN PhD healthydebate.ca/2024/09/topic/…
🧵In 2021 Oregon became the first state to decriminalize drugs. It recriminalized last week, after three years. There were many reasons; one was because overdoses rose sharply. Our new study finds, critically, this was *not* a result of decriminalization. jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…
Find out more about our planned special issue on psychedelic-assisted treatment for SUD, including how to submit onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ad… Wiley Clinical Health
Youth #vaping continues its tumble from a Juul-fueled high. The number of kids using e-cigs has dropped to a third of its 2019 peak, by Lizzy Lawrence statnews.com/2024/09/05/you… via STAT Samir Gupta