Context of Forum:

The Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity forum’s offer public health practitioners, researcher’s, enforcement professionals, and government officials the opportunity to engage in dialogue where the intersection of sales, distribution and consumption meet addiction, injury, and illness related to alcohol.

The objectives of this forum included:

1. Provide opportunities for networking with colleagues
2. Provide current alcohol policy information
3. Provide mobilization strategies on alcohol policy issues

Presentations:

Monday, March 7, 2011

• Dr. Gerald Thomas (Keynote), Senior Research and Policy Analyst, Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse — What’s the Big Deal About Alcohol? [PDF, 591kb]

• Brian Hyndman, Senior Planner, Health Promotion, Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention Section, Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion — Brief Orientation to OAHPP and Health Promotion, Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention Section [PDF, 280kb]

• Dr. Norman Giesbrecht, Senior Scientist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health — Reducing High-Risk Drinking & Related Damage: A brief overview of alcohol control strategies [PDF, 363kb]

• Dr. Charles Gardner, Medical Officer of Health, Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit — Alcohol Policy Initiatives in Simcoe/Muskoka [PDF, 1.8MB]

• Jann Houston, Program Director, Toronto Public Health — Action on Alcohol at Toronto Public Health [PDF, 133kb]

• Dr. Jessica Hopkins, Associate Medical Officer of Health, Niagara Region Public Health — Safe Drinking in Wine Country [PDF, 649kb]

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

• Dr. Robert Mann, Senior Scientist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health — The Burden of Alcohol in Ontario: Successes and Challenges [PDF, 612kb]

• Dr. Gerald Thomas, Senior Research and Policy Analyst, Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse — All you wanted to know about alcohol policy making but were afraid to ask! [PDF, 574kb]

• Michael Perley, Director, Ontario Campaign for Action on Tobacco (OCAT) — Alcohol Regulation in Ontario: Campaign Notes [PDF, 542kb]

• Cathy Edwards, Public Health Nurse, Kingston, Frontenac, and Lennox & Addington Public Health — Working Towards an Alcohol Strategy: Evidence Informed Action in KFL&A [PDF, 1.2MB]

• Vanessa Trumpickas, Health Promotion Officer, Health Promoter, Hamilton Public Health Services — Southwest/Central West Ontario Substance Misuse Prevention Network: Update - Movement on Alcohol [PDF, 208kb]

• Tom Martin, Peel Region Public Health — Alcohol Policy: Movement in Ontario: The Crucial Need for Policy in Addressing Alcohol Problems [PDF, 343kb]

 

Videos:

At this year's forum, APN included some alcohol awareness videos for participants to view at the conclusion of the breaks. The videos are below:

• “When” — This video and additional content can be found on the “Changing the Culture” website, a Nova Scotia health services project.
• Alcohol: Know your limits (Girl video)
• Alcohol: Know your limits (Boy video)
• Don’t Turn a Night Out into a Nightmare
• DrinkWise Australia: Drink Cycle — DrinkWise Australia Home Page

Documents from the USB key distributed at the Forum:

• ANOC 8 - Recommended Reading List [PDF, 49kb]
• ANOC 8 - Agenda [PDF, 58kb]
• Alcohol Policy: Getting Alcohol on the Agenda and Higher Priority for Effective Intervention [PDF, 55kb] - Briefing Note, Alcohol Policy Network, January 2005
• Protecting Ontario’s Alcohol and Public Health Policies in Negotiations on the Proposed Canada-EU Treaty [PDF, 60kb] - Backgrounder, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, February 2010
• Alcohol in Canada: reducing the toll through focused interventions and public health policies - Analysis, Canadian Medical Association Journal, February 2, 2011
• Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity – a summary of the second edition [PDF, 170kb] - Book Summary, Addiction, pp. 769-779
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• Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity Policy Forums: A Guide and Recommendations [PDF, 313kb] - Alcohol Policy Network, February 2010
• What Does it Take to Make a Healthy Province?: A benchmark study of jurisdictions in Canada and around the world with the highest levels of health and the best health behaviours [PDF, 1.4MB] - ICES Investigative Report, November 2009
• IAS Fact Sheet: Alcohol Policies [PDF, 119kb] - Institute of Alcohol Studies, July 21, 2005
• Alcohol, Gender, Culture and Harms in the Americas [PDF, 968kb] - PAHO Multicentric Study Final Report, Pan American Health Organization, 2007
• Public Health Approach to Alcohol Policy: An Updated Report from the Provincial Health Officer [PDF, 1.4MB] - P.R.W. Kendall, Office of the Provincial Health Officer, British Columbia, December 2008
• Rating the Provinces and Territories: The 2009 Report [PDF, 503kb] - A comprehensive review of the provincial and territorial impaired driving laws, MADD Canada, November 2009
• Handbook for Action to Reduce Alcohol-related Harm [PDF, 597kb] - World Health Organization, Regional Office of Europe, 2009
• Strategies to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol: draft global strategy [PDF, 162kb] - Report by the Secretariat, World Health Organization, Sixty-third World Health Assembly, March 25, 2010

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Brought to you by...

This forum is co-hosted by the Alcohol Policy Network of the Ontario Public Health Association, and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), in partnership with York Region Health Services and Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington Public Health.

Support was also provided by the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion.