Do you use Recreational or Club Drugs?
You may be eligible to participate in a study if you:
The study consists of a one-time, confidential and anonymous interview of about 60 minutes, and you will be compensated for your time.
If you are interested in participating, please call us at 604-671-4017 (Vancouver) or 250-208-5308 (Victoria) or send an email to vicstudy@uvic.ca.
The study is being conducted by researchers from Vancouver Coastal Health and the Centre for Addictions Research of BC and has been approved by the UBC Research Ethics Board.
Addiction Treatment
The Addiction Treatment component of the BC Alcohol and Other Drug Monitoring Project seeks to determine the range of treatment services provided by both private and public funding in British Columbia and the nature of problems experienced by those entering treatment.
Alcohol Consumption
The overall aim of the Alcohol Consumption component of the BC Alcohol and Other Drug Monitoring Project is to assemble time-series data of different geographic regions of British Columbia on alcohol sales and the liquor distribution network. Such data can be used to better understand epidemiological issues related to alcohol consumption, policy development, evaluation and interventions.
BC Crime Statistics
The Crime Statistics component of the BC Alcohol and Other Drug Monitoring Project seeks to map out crimes involving alcohol and other drugs across different regions of BC as well as to monitor trends over time.
Emergency Departments
The Emergency Departments component of the BC Alcohol and Other Drug Monitoring Project seeks to identify and monitor emerging trends in patterns of alcohol and other drug use that increase the risk of injury, overdose, poisoning, and other acute harms.
General Population Surveys
The General Population Surveys component of the AOD Monitoring Project seeks to help identify broad patterns of low- to moderate-risk use of alcohol and other drugs.
High Risk Populations
The High Risk Populations component of the Alcohol and Other Drug Monitoring Project is intended to provide indicators of patterns of use and substance-related problems within 'at risk' populations.
Mortality/Morbidity
The purpose of the Mortality and Morbidity component of the BC Alcohol and Other Drug Monitoring Project is to estimate deaths and hospitalizations related to alcohol, illicit drugs, and tobacco. This will allow for comparisons of the total burden of deaths and disease attributable to alcohol, illicit drugs and tobacco between regions and over time, and the relative burden of each substance.
Police Drug Seizures
The goal of the Police Drug Seizures component of the BC Alcohol and Other Drug Monitoring Project is to provide indicators of emerging or changing patterns in substances seized by law enforcement agencies across BC.
School Surveys
The Schools Surveys Component of the Alcohol and Other Drug Monitoring Project seeks to provide valuable information on adolescent substance use patterns. This information can be used to monitor changes in adolescent substance use and can be correlated with other health and risk behaviour indicators.
Vancouver Police Data
The Vancouver Police Department component of the BC Alcohol and Other Drug Monitoring Project aims to shed light on the number of incidents police respond to in which alcohol and other drugs are a factor. Police data can be an important indicator of the impact of substance use on communities as well as on service provision by law enforcement agencies.
The BC Alcohol and Other Drug Monitoring Project, collects and organizes multiple streams of data related to risky substance use and associated harms in British Columbia. The objective of the Monitoring Project is to inform the implementation of Canada's Drug Strategy by monitoring hazardous patterns of substance use and related harms across the province, supporting evidence-based decision-making, and facilitating high-quality epidemiological research. As such, this BC-based initiative is paving the way for developing a comprehensive national system that can be applied in various jurisdictions to collect and compare substance-related trends and harms across the country.
We encourage health and community-based researchers and graduate students to submit applications for access to the AOD Monitoring Project data. Applications will be assessed in coordination with the research teams responsible for each of the individual project components. Data from some components may not be available directly from the Centre for Addictions Research of BC and applications will be forwarded on to the appropriate data managers. In some situations CARBC faculty can provide supervision for students analyzing these data sets. Additionally, the AOD monitoring project team can sometimes perform special analyses by request – if time-consuming this may require a funding contribution towards the project expenses.
1. I will always acknowledge the source or sources of these data as requested by the project coordinator when the data are delivered and that you will not share any of these data with third parties without express permission of the project coordinator.
2. If you do publish or utilize these data in any form please use the following acknowledgement: Data accessed from the BC Alcohol and Other Drug Monitoring Project Coordinated by the Centre for Addictions Research of BC, University Victoria.
3. Acknowledge principal investigators who developed the dataset if requested to do so as well.
4. I agree that data will only be made accessible to the researchers designated above. I can affirm that the computer(s) in which the data will be kept and filing cabinets in which sensitive paper related files will be kept are in a secure office. Access to these electronic and paper files will be permitted only for the explicit purpose of the research project approved by CARBC and by the Ethics Board of the institution listed above. Data will be reported to funders and in publications in summary form only. Acknowledgement of the data source will be made in any publication, copies of which will be provided to CARBC for comment in advance of submission. If a further analysis of the data is desired for a different research question, another application will be made to CARBC for approval to ensure there is no duplication or overlap with other ongoing analyses.
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The BC Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) Monitoring Project consists of three interconnected elements each of which can be accessed from the menu above.
At its foundation are ten different research components each collecting and analysing data from different sources. Together they form a picture of risky substance use and associated harms in British Columbia. The research findings and reports as well as other information related to the various components can be accessed through pages dedicated to each component.
Some of the output from multiple research components is used to inform presentations on various topics or key indicators. These topical syntheses form the second element of the project.
The final element is still in its infancy, but some information emerging from the various research components is relevant to informing policy at the regional level. This information is beginning to be collected and organized to create regional profiles that will assist policy makers within the regions to identify and address unique issues facing their communities.