Dr. Robert E. Mann, a Senior Scientist with the Public Health and Regulatory Policy Section in the Social Prevention and Health Policy Research Department, was featured in interviews with CBC and Sun News Network this week to share and discuss the results of CAMH’s 2013 Ontario Student Drug Use and Health Survey. The results of the survey revealed to CAMH researchers that 1 in 8 students, approximately 120,000 in total, have experimented with both over-the-counter and prescription drugs. However, Dr. Mann emphasizes that the survey also unveiled several new sources of concern for parents and drug researchers, one of which is cough syrup. According to Dr. Mann, “liquid cough and cold medicine containing dextromethorphan is the source of the high.” Another troubling reality the survey exposes is that 1 in 10 licensed students admitted to driving a car within one hour of smoking cannabis, which represents 31,500 adolescent drivers in Ontario.
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is Canada’s largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital, and one of the world’s leading research centres in the field. CAMH combines clinical care, research, education, policy development and health promotion to help transform the lives of people affected by mental health and addiction issues.
To read more of Dr. Robert E. Mann’s research, take a look at “Research, Policy Development, and Progress: Antisocial Behaviour and the Automobile” from Canadian Public Policy 36.1 which he co-authored with several colleagues. In addition, Dr. Mann pursues his interest in studying the relationship between vehicles and crime in the upcoming special “Auto-Theft” issue of The Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, which Dr. Mann co-edited alongside Rick Linden.
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