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Douglas James Beirness

Researcher at Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse

Publications -  65
Citations -  1850

Douglas James Beirness is an academic researcher from Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Interlock. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 65 publications receiving 1750 citations.

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Effectiveness of ignition interlocks for preventing alcohol-impaired driving and alcohol-related crashes: a Community Guide systematic review

TL;DR: Findings provide strong evidence that interlocks, while they are in use in offenders' vehicles, are effective in reducing re-arrest rates and the potential for interlock programs to reduce alcohol-related crashes is currently limited by the small proportion of offenders who participate in the programs and the lack of a persistent beneficial effect once the interlock is removed.
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The Alberta Interlock Program: the evaluation of a province-wide program on DUI recidivism.

TL;DR: Interlocks are associated with a major reduction in DUI recidivism while on the vehicle of the offender, however, because few offenders elect to participate, the program produces only a small overall reduction in the recidivist rate of all DUI offenders.
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A Meta-Analytic Review of School-Based Prevention for Cannabis Use

TL;DR: Meta-analytic techniques used to evaluate the effectiveness of school-based prevention programming in reducing cannabis use among youth aged 12 to 19 revealed that programs incorporating elements of several prevention models were significantly more effective than were those based on only a social influence model.
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The basis for Canada's new low‐risk drinking guidelines: A relative risk approach to estimating hazardous levels and patterns of alcohol use

TL;DR: Some of the fundamental issues addressed by an expert advisory panel during the course of developing national guidelines for Canadians are discussed and key sets of evidence that were influential are summarized.