Substance Use by Canadian Youth - A National Survey of Canadians' Use of Alcohol and Other Drugs - Canadian Addiction Survey (CAS)

Acknowledgements

Document prepared by Jillian Flight, Research Analyst, Office of Research and Surveillance, Drug Strategy and Controlled Substances Programme, Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch, Health Canada.

The Canadian Addiction Survey (CAS) is a collaborative initiative sponsored by Health Canada, the Canadian Executive Council on Addictions (CECA)--which includes the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA), the Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission (AADAC), the Addictions Foundation of Manitoba (AFM), the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), the Prince Edward Island Provincial Health Services Authority, and the Kaiser Foundation--the Centre for Addictions Research of BC (CAR-BC), and the provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and British Columbia.

The contributions of the following people and organizations are gratefully acknowledged.

Canadian Addiction Survey Research Advisory Team

(west to east):

Ed Sawka, Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission (AADAC); David Patton, Addictions Foundation of Manitoba (AFM); Ed Adlaf, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH); Juergen Rehm, CAMH; Anca Ialomiteanu, CAMH; Patricia Begin, Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA); Eric Single, CCSA; Stéphane Racine, Health Canada; Robert Hanson, Health Canada; Florence Kellner, Carleton University; Andrée Demers, University of Montreal; Christiane Poulin, Dalhousie University.

Financial and in-kind contributions

(alphabetical order):

AADAC, AFM, CAMH, CCSA, Health Canada and the provinces of British Columbia, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

Special thanks to Office of Research and Surveillance colleagues for considerable sharing of ideas, review of drafts and recommendations for improvement.

Thanks to Dr. Florence Kellner for review and feedback of early drafts and brainstorming of ideas. To Ed Adlaf and Anca Ialomiteanu, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, for training and support on use of the STATA statistical software package.

Finally, we wish to thank members of the Canadian Addiction Survey Research Advisory Team for reviewing the document.