Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research
Promoting health, reducing harm. Official account of UVic's Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research.
- "Lifelong patterns of alcohol use can begin in college, and findings indicate that state alcohol policies are a foundation on which community- and campus-level preventive efforts can build."
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- "Dr. Tim Naimi, a physician, alcohol epidemiologist and director of @uviccisur.bsky.social, said when you subtract tax revenue from the cost of each standard drink sold in Ontario, it costs taxpayers about 30 cents more than what is earned by the government."
- "'Men drink more, binge-drink more and generally do dumber things when impaired,' said Tim Naimi, director of the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research and another author of the alcohol report." via @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/h...
- "Despite the hard work and good intentions behind the pilot, it has not delivered the results we hoped for. For that reason, we will not be asking the federal government to renew the exemption." -BC Minister of Health Josie Osborne on #decrim. news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...
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- Welcome, Matthew!
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- "[CISUR Director Tim] Naimi said he had hoped that guidelines would be tighter, calling for no more than a few drinks per week, or no more than one per day for men and women."
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- "For the first time, recommendations for drinking were handled in a separate process from the rest of the nutritional advice, with two separate studies commissioned to inform the alcohol guidelines." www.reuters.com/business/hea...
- "There's new science. There's new data." CISUR scientist Tim Stockwell is one of several alcohol researchers interviewed as part of CBC's the Nature of Things piece, The New Science of Alcohol. You can view it on CBC Gem, or via YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXTE...
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- "Dr Tim Stockwell of the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research says those who continue to drink may simply be those who have not yet become unwell." via @economist.com www.economist.com/christmas-sp...
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- This is a recent paper by CISUR researchers! "Findings revealed that the mean daily MAP-provided alcohol consumption dropped from 8.08 to 6.45 standard drinks following the program’s introduction."
- CISUR's #KnowAlcohol project is part of this list! Stay tuned for another campaign coming in January =)
- These stories shaped our year. 📆 From psychedelic research to innovating clean energy solutions, let’s revisit some of UVic’s biggest stories from 2025. Each one offers a snapshot of how our students, faculty and partners are creating impact locally and globally. news.uvic.ca/2025/top-10-...
- "According to Timothy Stockwell, a scientist at the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research, reducing alcohol consumption can significantly reduce a person’s risk of developing or worsening chronic diseases associated with drinking." www.advisory.com/daily-briefi...
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- “The youth were the experts, and we honoured that." Learn more about the Lower Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines for Youth, by Youth project. www.uvic.ca/research-inn...
- Work from CISUR researchers is one of JSAD's top downloaded 2024 publications!
- “The largest reductions we saw in drug-related offences in Victoria happened in 2020 and 2021, before decriminalization was being openly discussed by the provincial government as a policy,” said Alexander Kuzma-Hunt, the paper’s lead author. www.timescolonist.com/local-news/d...
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- CISUR Scientist Jaime Arredondo will be moderating this session on November 26.
- Congrats to Andrea and all the other grads convocating today!
- Thanks to everyone who was able to make it to @drscotthadland.bsky.social's talk on adolescent overdose in North America on November 4. For those who wouldn't make it, you can view a recording on our YouTube page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR_8...
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- “Also, many young people don’t perceive themselves as ‘people who use opioids,’ so the usual risk messages don’t land." @drscotthadland.bsky.social talks youth overdose prevention in today's @timescolonist.bsky.social www.timescolonist.com/local-news/y... Catch his talk today (Nov 4), 1:30 at #UVic.
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- Researchers at CISUR joined witnesses from @ccsacanada.bsky.social, WHO Europe, @alcoholireland.ie, @cancersociety.bsky.social and CAUDS to testify at the SOCI Senate Committee in support of Bill S-202, which calls for warning labels on alcoholic beverages. senparlvu.parl.gc.ca/harmony/en/p...
- 🎤Free talk🎤 Scott Hadland: Addressing North America’s Adolescent Overdose Crisis. 1:30PM PT Tues, Nov 4, Snequ House Conference Centre, #uvic Info and registration: events.uvic.ca/cisur/event/...
- "Inside the alcohol industry’s global campaign to delay Ireland’s world-first health labels - New documents reveal an organised effort by alcohol giants to pressure the Irish government into delaying landmark cancer warnings." www.thejournal.ie/alcohol-lobb...
- "The proposed bill also would require clear labels stating what constitutes a standard drink, the number of drinks per container, and the number of drinks that Health Canada considers a health risk." www.timescolonist.com/national-new...
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- “The biggest worry is that they are quite potent molecules in comparison to fentanyl, which is a strong opioid as well...And detecting them can be challenging.” Substance's Derek Robinson talking about nitazenes in the @timescolonist.bsky.social this week. www.timescolonist.com/local-news/p...
- The story also discusses paper-spray mass spectrometry, a new method for detecting small amounts of substances in samples. The machine at substance was co-developed by @viuniversity.bsky.social and @uvic.ca researchers.
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- "Liver harm caused by alcohol is a public health problem. Collectively, we need to take better care of our livers by taking steps to reduce alcohol consumption in the population." CISUR's Tim Naimi in @ca.theconversation.com #alcoholpolicy #alcoholresearch
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- "When you have an illicit market that is highly criminalized, one sample might be totally fine, but then the next sample can be three times stronger.” -Substance Drug Checking's Katy Booth in @victorianews.bsky.social www.vicnews.com/news/the-his...
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- “We’ve seen this playbook before with the tobacco industry trying to discredit science around smoking’s harms." -CISUR's Tim Stockwell
- "After the initial test is conducted, data is sent to Substance Drug Checking in Victoria, which will provide a detail breakdown of the sample’s contents, with percentages. This information is expected to be available within a week, and will be provided to clients, explained Rai."
- New paper alert: Alcohol lobbying in Canada: a quantitative analysis of the federal registry of lobbyists academic.oup.com/heapro/artic... The paper, published in Health Promotion International, examined lobbyist registrations in the Canadian Federal Registry of Lobbyists from May 2022-May 2023.
- "These findings highlight the need for strategies to mitigate potential harm in low SES groups and the widening of existing inequities."
- Only one more week to apply for the new Samit & Resha Sharma Scholarship! If you're a #UVic Graduate Student doing research in substance use and/or mental health, apply here by September 15: www.uvic.ca/graduatestud...
- “The key message is that drinking two drinks a day may be moderate from a social perspective, but when it comes to health, it’s a pretty risky amount." CISUR's Tim Naimi in @nytimes.com. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/h...
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- "For this story, I spoke with three of the six authors of the study: Martinez, Keyes, and co-author Tim Naimi, an alcohol researcher affiliated with @uvic.ca and Boston University. They all emphasized that they had sought to conduct a study that would fairly represent America’s alcohol consumption."
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- “I do believe the change in public sentiment is a good reflection of the change in science — and that the risks of alcohol, in what some people might have previously considered low levels, are higher than previously appreciated." -CISUR Director Tim Naimi www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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- "Two public gatherings in Victoria this month will honour lives lost to toxic drug poisonings and call for stronger action to address the ongoing crisis." Aug 17: BC Legislature Aug 31: Broad View United Church (3703 St Aidans St.). More info: www.vicnews.com/local-news/g...
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- Webinar series: Alcohol policy in Canadian municipalities...launching early September 2025! More info and registration: onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/municipalalc...
- "We need to shift the focus from individual behavioural factors to see how broader social and structural conditions affect people’s health, and design policies to address these."
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- "There's been a shift in the awareness out there in the public … about the health impacts," -CISUR's Tim Stockwell. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
- New @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social paper featuring CISUR researchers: "Exploring models of #safersupply provision: A qualitative study on the preferences of people who access the unregulated drug market" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
