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Overview

Norman Giesbrecht is affiliated with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Health Professions, with a focus on Epidemiology, General Health Professions, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Clinical Psychology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
  • Smoking Behavior and Cessation
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology

Norman Giesbrecht has published extensively, with notable frequent publication venues including:

  • Drug and Alcohol Review
  • Canadian Journal of Public Health
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Injury Prevention
  • Nutrients

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Alcohol Health Warning Labels: A Rapid Review with Action Recommendations" (2022) published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "Alcohol and other drugs in suicide in Canada: opportunities to support prevention through enhanced monitoring" (2020) published in Injury Prevention
  • "Exploiting motherhood: Do mummy drinking sites offer real support or are they mainly alcohol marketing?" (2021) published in Drug and Alcohol Review
  • "Government Options to Reduce the Impact of Alcohol on Human Health: Obstacles to Effective Policy Implementation" (2021) published in Nutrients
  • "Integrating a brief alcohol intervention with tobacco addiction treatment in primary care: qualitative study of health care practitioner perceptions" (2021) published in Addiction Science & Clinical Practice

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Norman Giesbrecht include:

  • Tim Stockwell
  • Kate Vallance
  • Ashley Wettlaufer
  • Heather Orpana
  • Elizabeth K. Farkouh

Best Publications

  • Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity: Research and Public Policy

    Thomas Babor;Raul Caetano;Sally Casswell;Griffith Edwards

  • Hours and Days of Sale and Density of Alcohol Outlets: Impacts on Alcohol Consumption and Damage: A Systematic Review

    Svetlana Popova;Norman Giesbrecht;Dennis Bekmuradov;Jayadeep Patra

  • Alcohol: No ordinary commodity: Research and public policy, 2nd ed.

    Thomas Babor;Raul Caetano;Sally Casswell;Griffith Edwards

  • On the emerging paradigm of drinking patterns and their social and health consequences.

    Jurgen Rehm;Mary Jane Ashley;Robin Room;Eric Single;Eric Single

  • Alcohol : No Ordinary Commodity – a summary of the second edition

    T. Babor;R. Caetano;S. Casswell;G. Edwards

  • A cross‐national meta‐analysis of alcohol and injury: data from the Emergency Room Collaborative Alcohol Analysis Project (ERCAAP)

    Cheryl J. Cherpitel;Jason Bond;Yinjiao Ye;Guilherme Borges

  • Acute alcohol intoxication and suicide: a gender-stratified analysis of the National Violent Death Reporting System

    Mark S Kaplan;Bentson H McFarland;Nathalie Huguet;Kenneth Conner

  • The criteria for causation of alcohol in violent injuries based on emergency room data from six countries.

    Sheila MacDonald;Cheryl J. Cherpitel;Guilherme Borges;Amanda Desouza

  • The Raising of Minimum Alcohol Prices in Saskatchewan, Canada: Impacts on Consumption and Implications for Public Health

    Tim Stockwell;Jinhui Zhao;Norman Giesbrecht;Scott Macdonald

  • Economic Recession, Alcohol, and Suicide Rates: Comparative Effects of Poverty, Foreclosure, and Job Loss

    William C. Kerr;Mark S. Kaplan;Nathalie Huguet;Raul Caetano

  • Demographic and substance use factors related to violent and accidental injuries: results from an emergency room study

    Sheila MacDonald;Samantha Wells;Norman Giesbrecht;Cheryl J. Cherpitel

  • Use of alcohol before suicide in the United States.

    Mark S. Kaplan;Nathalie Huguet;Bentson H. McFarland;Raul Caetano

  • Collateral damage from alcohol: implications of 'second-hand effects of drinking' for populations and health priorities.

    Norman Giesbrecht;Samantha Cukier;Dan Steeves

  • Externalities from Alcohol Consumption in the 2005 US National Alcohol Survey: Implications for Policy

    Thomas K. Greenfield;Yinjiao Ye;William Kerr;Jason Bond

  • Public opinions on alcohol policy issues: a comparison of American and Canadian surveys

    Norman Giesbrecht;Thomas K. Greenfield

  • Acute use of alcohol and methods of suicide in a US national sample.

    Kenneth R. Conner;Nathalie Huguet;Raul Caetano;Norman Giesbrecht

  • Acute alcohol use and the risk of non-fatal injury in sixteen countries.

    Guilherme Borges;Cheryl J. Cherpitel;Ricardo Orozco;Jason Bond

  • Privatizing alcohol sales and alcohol consumption: evidence and implications.

    Minghao Her;Norman Giesbrecht;Robin Room;Jurgen Rehm

  • The Process of Recovery and Rebuilding among Abused Women in the Conservative Evangelical Subculture

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  • Building Blocks for Tobacco Control: A Handbook

    Norman Giesbrecht

  • Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity, A summary of the book

    T. Babor;R. Caetano;S. Casswell;G. Edwards

  • EPIDEMIOLOGY AND POLICY Hours and Days of Sale and Density of Alcohol Outlets: Impacts on Alcohol Consumption and Damage: A Systematic Review

    Svetlana Popova;Norman Giesbrecht;Dennis Bekmuradov;Jayadeep Patra

Frequent Co-Authors

Raul Caetano
Raul Caetano Pacific Institute For Research and Evaluation
Robin Room
Robin Room La Trobe University
Hayley Hamilton
Hayley Hamilton Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Edward M. Adlaf
Edward M. Adlaf Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Thomas K. Greenfield
Thomas K. Greenfield Alcohol Research Group
Sally Casswell
Sally Casswell Massey University
Kathryn Graham
Kathryn Graham Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Harold D. Holder
Harold D. Holder Pacific Institute
Mark S. Kaplan
Mark S. Kaplan University of California, Los Angeles
Joel W. Grube
Joel W. Grube Pacific Institute

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