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Brock team wins national video competition for research on LGB substance use

July 16, 2021

Recent master's graduate Sukhdeep Kaur (MSc '21), Associate Professor of Health Sciences Antony Chum and PhD student Celine Teo have found that lesbian, gay and bisexual people in Ontario are at greater risk of requiring urgent medical attention due to substance abuse compared to their heterosexual counterparts. Teo and Kaur produced a video that captured first place in a national competition offered by the Canadian Research Data Centre Network.

A Brock University research team has found that lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people in Ontario are at greater risk of requiring urgent medical attention due to substance abuse compared to their heterosexual counterparts.

Lesbians have a 63 per cent higher chance of experiencing an "acute event" a trip to the emergency room (ER), for example than heterosexual women following misuse of alcohol, cannabis and other substances, says team member Sukhdeep Kaur (MSc '21), who was a master's student when the research took place.

Bisexual women are the most at-risk group, and are two times more likely to experience substance use acute care events, she says.

Meanwhile, gay men are at a higher risk of acute care events related to other drugs such as hallucinogens and amphetamines, and bisexual men are at a higher risk of cannabis-related acute care events, says PhD student Celine Teo.

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