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| Scott MacDonaldSummaryAffiliation: University of Victoria Country: Canada Publications
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Variations of alcohol impairment in different types, causes and contexts of injuries: results of emergency room studies from 16 countriesScott MacDonald
Centre for Addictions Research of BC and School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, BC STN CSC, Vic BC, Canada, V8W 2Y2
Accid Anal Prev 38:1107-12. 2006..The purpose of this paper is to document alcohol impairment (based on a blood alcohol content (BAC) of at least 80 mg%) for different types, causes and location contexts of injuries...- Testing for cannabis in the work-place: a review of the evidenceScott MacDonald
Centre for Addictions Research of BC and School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2, Canada
Addiction 105:408-16. 2010..In other countries, such as Canada, testing is focused more narrowly on identifying employees whose drug use puts the safety of others at risk... - Prevalence and factors related to Canadian workplace health programsScott MacDonald
Centre for Addictions Research of BC, School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
Can J Public Health 97:121-5. 2006..This study documented the prevalence and factors related to workplace health programs in Canada, including Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs), drug testing programs, and Health Promotion Programs (HPPs)... - Predicting violence among cocaine, cannabis, and alcohol treatment clientsS Macdonald
Centre for Addictions Research of BC, Canada
Addict Behav 33:201-5. 2008..The findings point to multi-causal explanations; however, both alcohol and cocaine use appear to play a significant role in explaining violence... - Impact on alcohol-related mortality of a rapid rise in the density of private liquor outlets in British Columbia: a local area multi-level analysisTim Stockwell
Centre for Addictions Research of British Columbia, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Addiction 106:768-76. 2011..To study relationships between rates of alcohol-related deaths and (i) the density of liquor outlets and (ii) the proportion of liquor stores owned privately in British Columbia (BC) during a period of rapid increase in private stores... - Driving behavior under the influence of cannabis or cocaineScott MacDonald
Centre for Addictions Research of British Columbia, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Traffic Inj Prev 9:190-4. 2008.... - Non-response bias in alcohol and drug population surveysJinhui Zhao
Centre for Addictions Research of British Columbia, University of Victoria, Victoria BC, Canada
Drug Alcohol Rev 28:648-57. 2009..This proposed study was to assess non-response bias in the 2004 Canadian Addictions Survey (CAS)... - Settings and functions related to simultaneous use of alcohol with marijuana or cocaine among clients in treatment for substance abuseBasia Pakula
Centre for Addictions Research of BC, British Columbia, Victoria, Canada
Subst Use Misuse 44:212-26. 2009..The settings and functions related to the simultaneous use of alcohol with marijuana or cocaine are examined using a dataset from a study of treatment clients in Ontario, Canada (data collected between the years 2003 and 2005)... - The role of substance use and psychosocial characteristics in explaining unintentional injuriesMichelle Coghlan
Centre for Addictions Research of British Columbia, University of Victoria, PO Box 1700, STN CSC, Victoria, Canada V8W 2Y2
Accid Anal Prev 42:476-9. 2010..The results provide important information regarding factors associated with reported injuries among individuals in addiction treatment... - Driving while impaired (DWI) by alcohol convictions among alcohol, cocaine, and cannabis clients in treatmentScott MacDonald
Centre for Addiction Research, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Traffic Inj Prev 6:207-11. 2005..The purpose of this article is to compare DWI convictions among clients in treatment for alcohol, cannabis, cocaine, or various combinations of these substances, compared to a matched population control group... - Changes in per capita alcohol sales during the partial privatization of British Columbia's retail alcohol monopoly 2003-2008: a multi-level local area analysisTim Stockwell
Centre for Addictions Research of British Columbia, University of Victoria, BCV8Y 2E4, Canada
Addiction 104:1827-36. 2009..To investigate the independent effects on liquor sales of an increase in (a) the density of liquor outlets and (b) the proportion of liquor stores in private rather than government ownership in British Columbia between 2003/4 and 2007/8... - Addiction research centres and the nurturing of creativity: the Centre for Addictions Research of British Columbia, CanadaTim Stockwell
Centre for Addictions Research of British Columbia, University of Victoria, BC, Canada
Addiction 105:207-15. 2010..Further information about the Centre and its activities can be found on http://www.carbc.ca... - The relationship between alcohol problems, perceived risks and attitudes toward alcohol policy in CanadaScott MacDonald
Centre for Addictions Research of BC and School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, BC, Canada Centre for Addictions Research of BC and Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, BC, Canada Department of Educational Psychology and Leadership, University of Victoria, BC, Canada
Drug Alcohol Rev 30:652-8. 2011..Strategies are suggested for implementing effective policies.[Macdonald S, Stockwell T, Luo J. The relationship between alcohol problems, perceived risks and attitudes toward alcohol policy in Canada. Drug Alcohol Rev 2010;30:652-658]... - A cross-national meta-analysis of alcohol and injury: data from the Emergency Room Collaborative Alcohol Analysis Project (ERCAAP)Cheryl J Cherpitel
Public Health Institute, Alcohol Research Group, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA
Addiction 98:1277-86. 2003..To examine the relationship of acute alcohol consumption with an injury compared to a non-injury event in the emergency room across ERs in five countries... - Alcohol-related injury in the ER: a cross-national meta-analysis from the Emergency Room Collaborative Alcohol Analysis Project (ERCAAP)Cheryl J Cherpitel
Public Health Institute, Alcohol Research Group, 2000 Hearst Avenue, Berkeley, California 94709, USA
J Stud Alcohol 64:641-9. 2003..CONCLUSIONS: Whereas quantity and frequency of drinking were both found to be highly predictive of an alcohol-related injury, sociocultural variables may affect observed associations of heavy drinking with an alcohol-related injury... - Injury risk associated with cannabis and cocaine useScott MacDonald
Center for Addiction and Mental Health, 200 100 Collip Circle, Suite 200, London, Ont, Canada N6G 4X8
Drug Alcohol Depend 72:99-115. 2003..Strengths and limitations of the different types of studies are discussed. More rigorous studies are needed which should focus on ruling out alternative explanations for relationships between drug use and injuries... - Collisions and traffic violations of alcohol, cannabis and cocaine abuse clients before and after treatmentScott MacDonald
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Suite 200, 100 Collip Circle, London, Ont, Canada N6G 4X8
Accid Anal Prev 36:795-800. 2004..More research is needed to better understand the reasons for the higher risk of traffic events and to determine reasons for declines... - Driving behavior of alcohol, cannabis, and cocaine abuse treatment clients and population controlsScott MacDonald
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH, Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 30:429-44. 2004..Differences between groups, and over time in terms of driving while under the influence of psychoactive substances better explain the results than differences between groups in impulsivity/risk-taking or sleep problems... - The criteria for causation of alcohol in violent injuries based on emergency room data from six countriesScott MacDonald
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Western Ontario, Suite 200, 100 Collip Circle, London, ON, Canada N6G 4X8
Addict Behav 30:103-13. 2005..A significant dose-response relationship between BAC level and violence was also found. All analyses conducted point to a causal role of alcohol in injuries related to violence... - Gender differences in the relationship between alcohol and violent injury: an analysis of cross-national emergency department dataSamantha Wells
Social Prevention and Health Policy Research Department, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 100 Collip Circle, Suite 200, London, Ontario, Canada, N6G 4X8
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 68:824-33. 2007..e., heavy episodic drinking) in explaining violent versus nonviolent injuries and (2) to assess whether these gender differences vary by country... - Multi-level analysis of alcohol-related injury among emergency department patients: a cross-national studyCheryl J Cherpitel
Acohol Research Group, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA
Addiction 100:1840-50. 2005.... - Validity of self-reported drinking before injury compared with a physiological measure: cross-national analysis of emergency-department data from 16 countriesCheryl J Cherpitel
Alcohol Research Group, 6475 Christie Avenue, Emeryville, California 94608, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 68:296-302. 2007..Both of these issues are explored in this article... - A case-crossover study of acute alcohol use and suicide attemptGuilherme Borges
Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatria and Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana Xochimilco, Col San Lorenzo Huipulco CP 14370, Mexico DF, Mexico
J Stud Alcohol 65:708-14. 2004..We report a study on the impact of acute alcohol use on suicide attempts treated in the emergency room (ER) using the case-crossover design... - Emergency room injury presentations as an indicator of alcohol-related problems in the community: a multilevel analysis of an international studyDeidra J Young
National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia
J Stud Alcohol 65:605-12. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: Frequency of nighttime injury presentations to ER facilities, particularly by men, can be used as a reliable surrogate measure of alcohol-related injuries for various epidemiological and evaluation purposes... - Stride width discriminates gait of side-fallers compared to other-directed fallers during overground walkingSeung uk Ko
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
J Aging Health 19:200-12. 2007..The purpose was to identify differences in gait characteristics between older fallers with a tendency to fall sideways compared to those who do not fall to the side... - Acute alcohol use and the risk of non-fatal injury in sixteen countriesGuilherme Borges
National Institute of Psychiatry Mexico and Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico City, Mexico
Addiction 101:993-1002. 2006..To determine the relative risk (RR) of non-fatal injury associated with alcohol consumption in a series of emergency departments (EDs), possible effect modifiers and the impact of contextual variables on differences across sites... - The influence of the age and sex distributions of drivers on the reduction of impaired crashes: Ontario, 1974-1999Scott MacDonald
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, London, Ontario, Canada
Traffic Inj Prev 4:33-7. 2003..4% decline in impaired crashes. Other global factors may also help to explain the reduction of impaired crashes, such as general road safety improvements and reductions in per adult consumption of alcohol... - Multicentre study of acute alcohol use and non-fatal injuries: data from the WHO collaborative study on alcohol and injuriesGuilherme Borges
Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatria and Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana Xochimilco, Calzada Mexico Xochimilco No 101, Col San Lorenzo Huipulco, Mexico DF 14370
Bull World Health Organ 84:453-60. 2006..To study the risk of non-fatal injury at low levels and moderate levels of alcohol consumption as well as the differences in risk across modes of injury and differences among alcoholics...