Exploring the Impacts of Cannabis Legalization

HRI received $100,000 from the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) and Health Canada to study the effects of cannabis legalization on at-risk populations.HRI’s Director of Evaluation, Dr. Jean Costello, led the study, which utilized patient data from Homewood Health Centre and St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton. The study was co-led by HRI Senior […]

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HRI welcomes Post-Doctoral Fellow improving individualized care for addiction-related illness

We are proud to welcome Marie Gendy, MD, MSc and PhD, to HRI as a Post-Doctoral Fellow. Dr. Gendy joins us through the Mitacs Accelerate Industrial Fellowship program. Her work explores diverse characteristics among people with addiction-related illness to help identify targeted treatment approaches that better match individual needs.

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International study explores how AA contributes to recovery

Treatment of alcohol use disorder is multi-faceted and often includes participation in mutual-support groups, the oldest and largest of which is Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Although frequent AA meeting attendance is associated with greater abstinence from alcohol, there is little understanding of the specific mechanisms by which AA benefits people. In other words, we know that AA works, […]

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