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  • 1. Qualitative analysis of substances in the wastewater of Canadian cities January to December 2023
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202517739281
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-06-26
  • 2. Using the Severity of Dependence Scale to examine cannabis consumers with impaired control in Canada
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202300600001
    Description: The 2018 Cannabis Act legalizing the production, sale, and use of cannabis for non-medical purposes renewed interest in the importance of ongoing and more detailed monitoring of cannabis consumption and consequences. Some cannabis users will experience impaired control over their use of cannabis, putting them at risk for cannabis use disorder (sometimes called addiction) and other harms. Using the Severity of Dependence Scale in the annual Canadian Community Health Survey, this study examines cannabis consumers with and without impaired control.
    Release date: 2023-06-21
  • 3. Characterizing polysubstance use: What do we know about use of cigarettes, vaping products, cannabis, and alcohol among Canadians?
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202300400002
    Description: Polysubstance use—the use of multiple substances on the same or different occasions—is a risk factor for substance use disorder. However, national surveillance of substance use in Canada has often focused on use of a single substance. To better understand and address polysubstance use, this study characterized the use of vaping products, cigarettes, inhaled cannabis, and alcohol among Canadians aged 15 years and older. Nationally representative data from the 2020 Canadian Tobacco and Nicotine Survey were analyzed.
    Release date: 2023-04-19
  • 4. Exploring the intersectionality of characteristics among those who experienced opioid overdoses: A cluster analysis
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202300300001
    Description: As Canada continues to experience an opioid crisis, it is important to understand the intersection between the demographic, socioeconomic and service use characteristics of those experiencing opioid overdoses to better inform prevention and treatment programs. This study aims to identify distinct groups of individuals with unique sets of characteristics and experiences among those who had an opioid overdose in British Columbia between 2014 and 2016.
    Release date: 2023-03-15
  • 5. Medical and non-medical cannabis use in Canada, 2019/2020 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2022054
    Description:

    An analysis of medical and non-medical cannabis consumption in the past 12 months among the population aged 15 or older, using the 2019/2020 Canadian Community Health Survey.

    Release date: 2022-10-17
  • 6. An analysis of cannabis home cultivation and associated risks in Canada, before and after legalization
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202200900003
    Description:

    In 2018, Canada legalized the use and sale of non-medical cannabis, with most provinces also permitting home cultivation. To advance the knowledge of home cultivation patterns in Canada within the context of legalization, this study examines (1) the demographics and use patterns of cannabis home growers before and after legalization and (2) the relationship between home cultivation and cannabis-related risks, including workplace use and driving after cannabis use.

    Release date: 2022-09-15
  • 7. Study: Understanding opioid overdoses in Simcoe Muskoka, Ontario, 2018 and 2019 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202119630484
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2021-07-15
  • 8. Impaired driving in Canada, 2019
    Articles and reports: 85-002-X202100100012
    Description:

    Using data from the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (UCR), this Juristat article presents data on police-reported impaired driving, including data specific to drug-impaired driving. More precisely, it examines the trends of impaired driving in Canada, the provinces and territories and in Census metropolitan areas. Characteristics of impaired driving, such as age and sex of accused persons and time of the day or time of the year when those incidents occur, are also examined. This Juristat article also presents data on impaired driving cases completed by criminal courts, including comparisons between alcohol and drug-impaired cases.

    Release date: 2021-07-15
  • 9. Understanding opioid overdoses in Simcoe Muskoka, Ontario Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2021060
    Description:

    The opioid epidemic continues to have deadly consequences for thousands of Canadians each year. This infographic uses data from a pilot study led by Statistics Canada that created a linked cohort of people experiencing overdoses in Simcoe Muskoka between January 1, 2018 and December 31, 2019. It provides a profile of those who experienced an overdose and looks at how they interact with the different systems.

    Release date: 2021-07-15
  • 10. Looking back from 2020, how cannabis use and related behaviours changed in Canada
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202100400001
    Description: The primary objective of this study is to update information to reflect changes in self-reported cannabis consumption and related behaviours, as well as examine how methods of consumption and products have been changing between 2018 and 2020, and particularly since the latest 2019 Cannabis Act modifications.
    Release date: 2021-04-21
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  • 1. National Survey on Drinking and Driving
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3869
    Description: The survey's main objectives were to collect etiological, attitudinal, cognitive and behavioural information regarding drinking and driving; to collect information that is representative and useful at both the provincial and national levels; and to collect baseline data which can be used to assess trends and changes in variables over time.
  • 2. National Alcohol and Drug Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3873
    Description: The purpose of this survey was to collect data on the negative consequences associated with drug and alcohol use.
  • 3. Youth Smoking Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 4401
    Description: The main objective of the Youth Smoking Survey (YSS) is to provide current information on the smoking behaviour of students in grades 5 to 9 (in Quebec primary school grades 5 and 6 and secondary school grades 1 to 3), and to measure changes that occurred since the last time the survey was conducted. Additionally, the survey collects basic data on alcohol and drug use by students in grades 7 to 9 (in Quebec secondary 1 to 3). Results of the Youth Smoking Survey will help with the evaluation of anti-smoking and anti-drug use programs, as well as with the development of new programs.
  • 4. Canada's Alcohol and Other Drugs Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 4408
    Description: The data will be used by Health Canada, the Health Promotion Directorate as well as Researchers for alcohol and other drug use in Canada. Information will be used to inform the decision making and program planning efforts of policy makers, practitioners and researchers.
  • 5. Canadian Tobacco, Alcohol and Drugs Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 4440
    Description: The main objective of the survey is to provide continual and reliable data on tobacco, alcohol and drug use and related issues, with the primary focus on 15 to 24 year olds.
  • 6. National Cannabis Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5262
    Description: The survey will be used in conjunction with other data sources to understand how the planned legalization of cannabis for non-medical use could impact the Canadian economy as well as other health and social services.
  • 7. Simcoe Muskoka Opioid Overdose Cohort
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5361
    Description: The Simcoe Muskoka Opioid Overdose Cohort (SMOOC) is an expansion of a pilot project that had previously been conducted with the province of British Columbia to better understand the characteristics of people who experienced an opioid overdose. The objective of the SMOOC was to create a cohort of individuals who experienced a fatal or non-fatal overdose in the Simcoe Muskoka area between January 2018 and December 2019.

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