Timothy S Naimi
Biographic Data
| ID | 2120911 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy S Naimi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy S |
| FAMILY NAME | Naimi |
| SIGNATURE | NAIMI T S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9849-4413 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Alcohol lobbying in Canada: A quantitative analysis of the federal registry of lobbyists
Although alcohol is a leading cause of health and social harms in Canada, policies directed at alleviating the public health burden created by alcohol are rarely adopted and often reversed. This study analyses alcohol-related policy lobbying activity to better understand how lobbying might impact policy development in Canada. This was deemed not human subjects research. A cross-sectional analysis was conducted using data from the federal Canadian…
Person- and Context-Level Moderators of State Alcohol Policy Environment Effects on Binge Drinking Among U.S. 4-Year College Students, 2008–2019
Binge drinking remains a serious issue among college students. While prior works showed more restrictive state alcohol policy environments are associated with less binge drinking in college students, the association may depend on individual, contextual, and institutional factors specific to this population. Data were from repeated cross-sectional surveys among 902,486 college students ages 18-24 years from 591 four-year institutions in 47 states …
Alcohol consumption and mortality among Canadian drinkers: A national population‐based survival analysis (2000–2017)
The impact of alcohol minimum pricing policies on vulnerable populations and health equity: A rapid review
Alcohol minimum pricing policies, including minimum unit pricing (MUP), are effective strategies for reducing alcohol consumption and related harm. However, their equity implications remain underexplored. We conducted a rapid review of PubMed and Web of Science, identifying 37 real-world studies assessing the impacts of alcohol minimum pricing. Studies from diverse contexts were synthesised with respect to vulnerable populations and health equity…
Calling time on low-risk drinking guidelines: An evaluation of alternative methods to communicate risks of alcohol use to consumers
Health communications, including AWLs, may be more effective if they highlight specific, tangible risks from alcohol consumption such as cancer and potential impacts on life expectancy
Evaluation of decriminalizing small amounts of illicit drugs in Victoria, BC: A seasonally adjusted interrupted time-series analysis of police data
Enforcement shifts preceded formal decriminalization, possibly reflecting anticipatory changes in policing practices. The post-implementation increases in seizure weights, alongside declining low-weight seizures, may indicate a reallocation of enforcement away from personal possession. To strengthen the impact of decriminalization, future efforts should prioritize clear policy communication, implementation training, and alignment between enforcem…
Provincial and territorial results and recommendations from the Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation project: Room for improvement
Alcohol, No Ordinary Commodity: Policy implications for Canada
Alcohol is a favorite psychoactive substance of Canadians. It is also a leading risk factor for death and disability, playing a causal role in a broad spectrum of health and social issues. Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity is a collaborative, integrative review of the scientific literature. This paper describes the epidemiology of alcohol use and current state of alcohol policy in Canada, best practices in policy identified by the third edition of A…
Assessing alcohol industry penetration and government safeguards: The International Alcohol Control Study
BACKGROUND: The alcohol industry uses many of the tobacco industry's strategies to influence policy-making, yet unlike the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, there is no intergovernmental guidance on protecting policies from alcohol industry influence. Systematic assessment of alcohol industry penetration and government safeguards is also lacking. Here, we aimed to identify the nature and extent of industry penetration in a cross-section of…
Building a community of practice to address alcohol harms in Canada: Experience from the Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation project
An assessment of federal alcohol policies in Canada and priority recommendations: Results from the 3rd Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation Project
Many evidence-informed alcohol policies have not been adopted, or been adopted only partially, by the Canadian federal government. Urgent adoption of the recommended policies is needed to prevent and reduce the enormous health, social, and economic costs of alcohol use in Canada
Why Canadians deserve to have mandated health and standard drink information labels on alcohol containers
To reduce deaths, morbidity, and social problems from alcohol in Canada, a multi-dimensional robust response is needed, including a comprehensive alcohol control strategy at the provincial, territorial, and federal levels. Alcohol container labels with health and standard drink information are an essential component of this strategy. This commentary provides a rationale for the mandatory labelling of all alcohol products, summarizes Canadian init…
Estimating alcohol‐attributable liver disease mortality: A comparison of methods
Rating the comparative efficacy of state-level cannabis policies on recreational cannabis markets in the United States
Lira and Naimi Respond
Lira and Naimi Respond Marlene C. LiraMPH Timothy S. NaimiMD, MPH Affiliation Marlene C. Lira is with the Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA. Timothy S. Naimi is with the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Marlene C. Lira, MPH, Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit, Bos…
Time for carefully tailored set of alcohol policies to reduce health‐care burden and mitigate potential unintended consequences
The burden of alcohol on health care during Covid ‐19
Alcohol's impact on global health is substantial and of a similar order of magnitude to that from COVID‐19. Alcohol now also poses specific concerns, such as increased risk of severe lung infections, domestic violence, child abuse, depression and suicide. Its use is unlikely to aid physical distancing or other preventative behavioural measures. Globally, alcohol contributes to 20% of injury and 11.5% of non‐injury emergency room presentations. We…
Alcohol policies, firearm policies, and suicide in the United States: A lagged cross-sectional study
More restrictive alcohol and firearm policies are associated with lower rates and odds of suicides involving alcohol or firearms, and alcohol and firearms, and may be a promising means by which to reduce suicide
Trends in Cannabis Involvement and Risk of Alcohol Involvement in Motor Vehicle Crash Fatalities in the United States, 2000‒2018
Objectives. To assess cannabis and alcohol involvement among motor vehicle crash (MVC) fatalities in the United States. Methods. In this repeated cross-sectional analysis, we used data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System from 2000 to 2018. Fatalities were cannabis-involved if an involved driver tested positive for a cannabinoid and alcohol-involved based on the highest blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of an involved driver. Multinomial m…
Brands matter: Major findings from the Alcohol Brand Research Among Underage Drinkers (Abrand) project
The findings presented here suggests that brand-level alcohol research will provide important insight into youth drinking behaviors, the factors that contribute to youth alcohol consumption, and potential avenues for effective public health surveillance and programming
The Alcohol Policy Environment and Policy Subgroups as Predictors of Binge Drinking Measures Among US Adults
Objectives. We examined the relationships of the state-level alcohol policy environment and policy subgroups with individual-level binge drinking measures. Methods. We used generalized estimating equations regression models to relate the alcohol policy environment based on data from 29 policies in US states from 2004 to 2009 to 3 binge drinking measures in adults from the 2005 to 2010 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System surveys. Results. A…
Alcohol-Attributable Mortality Among American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States, 1999–2009
Objectives. We describe the relative burden of alcohol-attributable death among American Indians/Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) in the United States. Methods. National Death Index records were linked with Indian Health Service (IHS) registration records to identify AI/AN deaths misclassified as non-AI/AN. We calculated age-adjusted alcohol-attributable death rates from 1999 to 2009 for AI/AN and White persons by sex, age, geographic region, and leading …
Alcohol-Attributable Cancer Deaths and Years of Potential Life Lost in the United States
Objectives. Our goal was to provide current estimates of alcohol-attributable cancer mortality and years of potential life lost (YPLL) in the United States. Methods. We used 2 methods to calculate population-attributable fractions. We based relative risks on meta-analyses published since 2000, and adult alcohol consumption on data from the 2009 Alcohol Epidemiologic Data System, 2009 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, and 2009–2010 Natio…
Toward a safer drinking environment for youth and adults
Toward a safer drinking environment for youth and adults." Addiction Research & Theory, 19(5), pp. 404–405
The Effectiveness of Tax Policy Interventions for Reducing Excessive Alcohol Consumption and Related Harms
Alcohol-Attributable Cancer Deaths and Years of Potential Life Lost in the United States
Objectives. Our goal was to provide current estimates of alcohol-attributable cancer mortality and years of potential life lost (YPLL) in the United States. Methods. We used 2 methods to calculate population-attributable fractions. We based relative risks on meta-analyses published since 2000, and adult alcohol consumption on data from the 2009 Alcohol Epidemiologic Data System, 2009 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, and 2009–2010 Natio…
Religious Affiliation and Alcohol Consumption in the United States
Levels of alcohol consumption are a major public health issue. This study aims to gain a better understanding of how geographical patterns of religious affiliation in the United States relate to geographical patterns of alcohol consumption. We explored state‐level correlations between alcohol consumption and religious adherence. Although we found no statistically significant correlation between overall religious adherence rates and current or bin…
Alcohol-Attributable Mortality Among American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States, 1999–2009
Objectives. We describe the relative burden of alcohol-attributable death among American Indians/Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) in the United States. Methods. National Death Index records were linked with Indian Health Service (IHS) registration records to identify AI/AN deaths misclassified as non-AI/AN. We calculated age-adjusted alcohol-attributable death rates from 1999 to 2009 for AI/AN and White persons by sex, age, geographic region, and leading …
The Alcohol Policy Environment and Policy Subgroups as Predictors of Binge Drinking Measures Among US Adults
Objectives. We examined the relationships of the state-level alcohol policy environment and policy subgroups with individual-level binge drinking measures. Methods. We used generalized estimating equations regression models to relate the alcohol policy environment based on data from 29 policies in US states from 2004 to 2009 to 3 binge drinking measures in adults from the 2005 to 2010 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System surveys. Results. A…
The State Sets the Rate: The Relationship Among State-Specific College Binge Drinking, State Binge Drinking Rates, and Selected State Alcohol Control Policies
Objectives. We assessed the relationship between college binge drinking, binge drinking in the general population, and selected alcohol control policies. Methods. We analyzed binge drinking rates from 2 national surveys, the Har-vard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. Binge drinking data were linked to a summary measure of 7 salient alcohol…
An assessment of federal alcohol policies in Canada and priority recommendations: Results from the 3rd Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation Project
Many evidence-informed alcohol policies have not been adopted, or been adopted only partially, by the Canadian federal government. Urgent adoption of the recommended policies is needed to prevent and reduce the enormous health, social, and economic costs of alcohol use in Canada
Trends in Cannabis Involvement and Risk of Alcohol Involvement in Motor Vehicle Crash Fatalities in the United States, 2000‒2018
Objectives. To assess cannabis and alcohol involvement among motor vehicle crash (MVC) fatalities in the United States. Methods. In this repeated cross-sectional analysis, we used data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System from 2000 to 2018. Fatalities were cannabis-involved if an involved driver tested positive for a cannabinoid and alcohol-involved based on the highest blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of an involved driver. Multinomial m…
Metropolitan-Area Estimates of Binge Drinking in the United States
Objectives. We estimated adult binge drinking prevalence in US metropolitan areas. Methods. We analyzed 1997 and 1999 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data for 120 metropolitan areas in 48 states and the District of Columbia. Results. The prevalence of binge drinking varied substantially across metropolitan areas, from 4.1% in Chattanooga, Tenn, to 23.9% in San Antonio, Tex, (median = 14.5%). Seventeen of the 20 metropolitan areas with …
Why Canadians deserve to have mandated health and standard drink information labels on alcohol containers
To reduce deaths, morbidity, and social problems from alcohol in Canada, a multi-dimensional robust response is needed, including a comprehensive alcohol control strategy at the provincial, territorial, and federal levels. Alcohol container labels with health and standard drink information are an essential component of this strategy. This commentary provides a rationale for the mandatory labelling of all alcohol products, summarizes Canadian init…
Building a community of practice to address alcohol harms in Canada: Experience from the Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation project
Binge Drinking Among US Adults
CONTEXT: Binge drinking (consuming > or =5 alcoholic drinks on 1 occasion) generally results in acute impairment and has numerous adverse health consequences. Reports indicate that binge drinking may be increasing in the United States. OBJECTIVES: To quantify episodes of binge drinking among US adults in 1993-2001, to characterize adults who engage in binge drinking, and to describe state and regional differences in binge drinking. DESIGN, SETTIN…
Metropolitan-Area Estimates of Binge Drinking in the United States
Objectives. We estimated adult binge drinking prevalence in US metropolitan areas. Methods. We analyzed 1997 and 1999 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data for 120 metropolitan areas in 48 states and the District of Columbia. Results. The prevalence of binge drinking varied substantially across metropolitan areas, from 4.1% in Chattanooga, Tenn, to 23.9% in San Antonio, Tex, (median = 14.5%). Seventeen of the 20 metropolitan areas with …
The State Sets the Rate: The Relationship Among State-Specific College Binge Drinking, State Binge Drinking Rates, and Selected State Alcohol Control Policies
Objectives. We assessed the relationship between college binge drinking, binge drinking in the general population, and selected alcohol control policies. Methods. We analyzed binge drinking rates from 2 national surveys, the Har-vard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. Binge drinking data were linked to a summary measure of 7 salient alcohol…
Religious Affiliation and Alcohol Consumption in the United States
Levels of alcohol consumption are a major public health issue. This study aims to gain a better understanding of how geographical patterns of religious affiliation in the United States relate to geographical patterns of alcohol consumption. We explored state‐level correlations between alcohol consumption and religious adherence. Although we found no statistically significant correlation between overall religious adherence rates and current or bin…
Binge Drinking and Associated Health Risk Behaviors Among High School Students
OBJECTIVES. Underage drinking contributes to the 3 leading causes of death (unintentional injury, homicide, and suicide) among persons aged 12 to 20 years. Most adverse health effects from underage drinking stem from acute intoxication resulting from binge drinking. Although binge drinking, typically defined as consuming ≥5 drinks on an occasion, is a common pattern of alcohol consumption among youth, few population-based studies have focused spe…
The Effectiveness of Limiting Alcohol Outlet Density As a Means of Reducing Excessive Alcohol Consumption and Alcohol-Related Harms
The Effectiveness of Tax Policy Interventions for Reducing Excessive Alcohol Consumption and Related Harms
Toward a safer drinking environment for youth and adults
Toward a safer drinking environment for youth and adults." Addiction Research & Theory, 19(5), pp. 404–405
Alcohol-Attributable Cancer Deaths and Years of Potential Life Lost in the United States
Objectives. Our goal was to provide current estimates of alcohol-attributable cancer mortality and years of potential life lost (YPLL) in the United States. Methods. We used 2 methods to calculate population-attributable fractions. We based relative risks on meta-analyses published since 2000, and adult alcohol consumption on data from the 2009 Alcohol Epidemiologic Data System, 2009 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, and 2009–2010 Natio…
Alcohol-Attributable Mortality Among American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States, 1999–2009
Objectives. We describe the relative burden of alcohol-attributable death among American Indians/Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) in the United States. Methods. National Death Index records were linked with Indian Health Service (IHS) registration records to identify AI/AN deaths misclassified as non-AI/AN. We calculated age-adjusted alcohol-attributable death rates from 1999 to 2009 for AI/AN and White persons by sex, age, geographic region, and leading …
Brands matter: Major findings from the Alcohol Brand Research Among Underage Drinkers (Abrand) project
The findings presented here suggests that brand-level alcohol research will provide important insight into youth drinking behaviors, the factors that contribute to youth alcohol consumption, and potential avenues for effective public health surveillance and programming
The Alcohol Policy Environment and Policy Subgroups as Predictors of Binge Drinking Measures Among US Adults
Objectives. We examined the relationships of the state-level alcohol policy environment and policy subgroups with individual-level binge drinking measures. Methods. We used generalized estimating equations regression models to relate the alcohol policy environment based on data from 29 policies in US states from 2004 to 2009 to 3 binge drinking measures in adults from the 2005 to 2010 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System surveys. Results. A…
Time for carefully tailored set of alcohol policies to reduce health‐care burden and mitigate potential unintended consequences
The burden of alcohol on health care during Covid ‐19
Alcohol's impact on global health is substantial and of a similar order of magnitude to that from COVID‐19. Alcohol now also poses specific concerns, such as increased risk of severe lung infections, domestic violence, child abuse, depression and suicide. Its use is unlikely to aid physical distancing or other preventative behavioural measures. Globally, alcohol contributes to 20% of injury and 11.5% of non‐injury emergency room presentations. We…
Alcohol policies, firearm policies, and suicide in the United States: A lagged cross-sectional study
More restrictive alcohol and firearm policies are associated with lower rates and odds of suicides involving alcohol or firearms, and alcohol and firearms, and may be a promising means by which to reduce suicide
Trends in Cannabis Involvement and Risk of Alcohol Involvement in Motor Vehicle Crash Fatalities in the United States, 2000‒2018
Objectives. To assess cannabis and alcohol involvement among motor vehicle crash (MVC) fatalities in the United States. Methods. In this repeated cross-sectional analysis, we used data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System from 2000 to 2018. Fatalities were cannabis-involved if an involved driver tested positive for a cannabinoid and alcohol-involved based on the highest blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of an involved driver. Multinomial m…
Estimating alcohol‐attributable liver disease mortality: A comparison of methods
Rating the comparative efficacy of state-level cannabis policies on recreational cannabis markets in the United States
Lira and Naimi Respond
Lira and Naimi Respond Marlene C. LiraMPH Timothy S. NaimiMD, MPH Affiliation Marlene C. Lira is with the Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA. Timothy S. Naimi is with the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Marlene C. Lira, MPH, Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit, Bos…
Why Canadians deserve to have mandated health and standard drink information labels on alcohol containers
To reduce deaths, morbidity, and social problems from alcohol in Canada, a multi-dimensional robust response is needed, including a comprehensive alcohol control strategy at the provincial, territorial, and federal levels. Alcohol container labels with health and standard drink information are an essential component of this strategy. This commentary provides a rationale for the mandatory labelling of all alcohol products, summarizes Canadian init…
Alcohol, No Ordinary Commodity: Policy implications for Canada
Alcohol is a favorite psychoactive substance of Canadians. It is also a leading risk factor for death and disability, playing a causal role in a broad spectrum of health and social issues. Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity is a collaborative, integrative review of the scientific literature. This paper describes the epidemiology of alcohol use and current state of alcohol policy in Canada, best practices in policy identified by the third edition of A…
Assessing alcohol industry penetration and government safeguards: The International Alcohol Control Study
BACKGROUND: The alcohol industry uses many of the tobacco industry's strategies to influence policy-making, yet unlike the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, there is no intergovernmental guidance on protecting policies from alcohol industry influence. Systematic assessment of alcohol industry penetration and government safeguards is also lacking. Here, we aimed to identify the nature and extent of industry penetration in a cross-section of…
Building a community of practice to address alcohol harms in Canada: Experience from the Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation project
An assessment of federal alcohol policies in Canada and priority recommendations: Results from the 3rd Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation Project
Many evidence-informed alcohol policies have not been adopted, or been adopted only partially, by the Canadian federal government. Urgent adoption of the recommended policies is needed to prevent and reduce the enormous health, social, and economic costs of alcohol use in Canada
Alcohol lobbying in Canada: A quantitative analysis of the federal registry of lobbyists
Although alcohol is a leading cause of health and social harms in Canada, policies directed at alleviating the public health burden created by alcohol are rarely adopted and often reversed. This study analyses alcohol-related policy lobbying activity to better understand how lobbying might impact policy development in Canada. This was deemed not human subjects research. A cross-sectional analysis was conducted using data from the federal Canadian…
Medicine (27 works) · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (26 works) · Environmental health (25 works) · Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects (17 works) · Poison control (15 works) · Alcohol (14 works) · Demography (13 works) · Business (12 works) · Injury prevention (11 works) · Political science (11 works)