JAPAN 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Headache, Paracetamol, Multiple-Criteria Decision Analysis
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Governmental classification of drugs (e. g. 3 different classes of drugs in gb) intended to reflect their relative harm (class a more dangerous than b) Uk: class a: ecstasy, lsd, heroin, cocaine, crack, magic mushrooms, amphetamines (injected, class b: amphetamines, cannabis, ritalin, class c: tranquilizers, painkillers, ghb, ketamine. Independent councils (uk: acmd) advise the government on newest scientific insight to support their policies with scientific evidence and give recommendations (cannabis not as harmful as alcohol --> downgrade would be appropriate) Lead to a discrepancy between scientific evidence about harms of drugs and their classification. -->nutt: politicians seem to see drug use as an entirely different category of activity which is not just harmful but immoral; therefore, no real interest in measuring harm and reducing it but policies which reduce the amount of users. Divided into narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances e. g. psychotropic substances: High risk of abuse, serious threat, very little or no therapeutic use.
