Grant: Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse

Substance misuse causes major health and social harms in Canada, and Ontario specifically. However, key evidence-based prevention and treatment interventions for illicit and/or prescription drug misuse are lacking. This proposal assembles a team of diversely skilled and experienced Ontario-based investigators from socio-behavioral, clinical and basic sciences, together with a group of key knowledge users from related intervention service provider, policy, public health and family/consumer domains in Ontario, towards the development and implementation of innovative and cost-effective (prevention and treatment) interventions for substance misuse. The team will be led by four Co-PIs - bringing exceptional and world-leading skills and expertise in intervention research for substance misuse focusing on different drugs, settings and populations - together with the diversely qualified Knowledge User group. The team is supported by and has access to first-class (institutional and community-based) research environments and support structures, including CAMH, Canada's largest addiction and mental health research hospital. The team furthermore brings outstanding KT potential, as well as national and international connections for pan-Canadian and international collaborations under the CRISM initiative.