Substance Use and Public Health Lecture
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What are the factors that determine the risk of fatal opioid overdose?

  • Intensity of policing, drug-related public disorder, social responses to drug use
  • Availability of heroin, changes in the toxicity of supply, local policies related to naloxone availability (correct)
  • Conventional public health approaches, risk environment framework, policy social legislation
  • Influence of drug-policy regime, production of harm, availability of risk-reduction
  • What can be separated from harms that result from political and social responses to drug use?

  • Conventional public health approaches
  • Influence of drug-policy regime
  • Intensity of policing, drug-related public disorder
  • Harms from drug use itself (direct effects) (correct)
  • What influences the availability of risk-reduction measures such as sterile syringes?

  • Intensity of policing
  • Legislation and policy (correct)
  • Conventional public health approaches
  • Drug-related harm
  • What determines how strongly drug use is associated with various harms?

    <p>Drug policy and policymakers’ choices</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are some contextual factors involved in the production of harm related to drug use?

    <p>Existing drug-policy regime</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What determines the risk of fatal opioid overdose?

    <p>All of the above</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What influences the availability of risk-reduction measures such as sterile syringes?

    <p>Legislation and policy shaping</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What separates harms from drug use itself (direct effects) from harms that result from political and social responses to drug use?

    <p>Conceptual distinction</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What can lead to more risky consumption due to intense policing focused on drug-related public disorder?

    <p>Increased availability of heroin locally</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What influences how strongly drug use is associated with various harms?

    <p>Existing drug-policy regime</p> Signup and view all the answers

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