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The Centre for Addictions Research of BC (CARBC) is a network of individuals and groups dedicated to the study of substance use and addiction in support of community-wide efforts to promote health and reduce harm. Our research is used to inform a broad range of projects, reports, publications and initiatives aimed at providing all people in BC and beyond with access to happier, healthier lives, whether using substances or not.

Since our inception in 2003, CARBC has continued to gain international recognition for work based on our guiding principles of

  • Collaborative relationships
  • Independent research
  • Ethics, social equity and justice
  • Reducing risk and increasing protections
  • Harm reduction
  • Informed public debate

Our advisory board, researchers and knowledge exchange staff, and partners are committed to helping our society better understand, manage and navigate a world where different people have  different relationships with alcohol and other drugs.

There is no society on Earth that does not in some way celebrate, depend on, profit from, enjoy and also suffer from the use of psychoactive substances … For almost all areas of human activity, there are psychoactive substances that are used with the intention of facilitating that activity in some way … The difference between the enhancement of human performance in some sphere as opposed to its impairment is … a function of the dose taken, the manner of its administration and the setting in which use occurs.

~Stockwell, Gruenewald, Toumbourou & Loxley, 2005, p.4

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Advisory Board

Dr. Michael Prince (Chair) Lansdowne Professor of Social Policy University of Victoria
Lynne Belle-Isle Graduate Student University of Victoria
Dr. Laurence Bosley Director Addictions Services, VIHA
Liz Evans Executive Director PHS Community Services Society
Jamie H. Graham Chief Constable Victoria Police Department
Nicole Hetu Health Planner Interm First Nations Health Authority
Dr. Perry Kendall
 Provincial Health Officer
 Ministry of Health
Andrea Langlois
 Manager
 Pacific AIDS Network
Philippe Lucas
 Research Affiliate
 CARBC, University of Victoria
Dr. Michael Miller
 Associate Vice-President, Research
 University of Victoria
Dr. Malcolm Ogborn
 Associate Vice-President, Health University of Northern British Columbia
Warren O'Briain
 Executive Director
 Communicable Disease Prevention, Ministry of Health
Sandra Richardson CEO
 Victoria Foundation
Dr. Evan Wood
 Director
 Urban Health Research Initiative, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS