Peter Butt

Dr. Peter Butt is a Certificant and Fellow with the College of Family Physicians of Canada, with Special Competency in Addiction Medicine. He is a retired Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan, and served as a consultant in Addiction Medicine in the Saskatchewan Health Authority for 24 years. In addition to teaching and other research, he chaired the original development of Canada’s Low Risk Drinking Guidelines (2011), co-chaired the Canadian Guidelines on Alcohol Use Disorder Among Older Adults (2019) and co-chaired the 2023 Canadian Guidance on Alcohol and Health with the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction.