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Perceptions of Harms Associated With Tobacco, Alcohol, and Cannabis Among Students From the UK and Norway

机译:英国和挪威学生对与烟草,酒精和大麻有关的危害的感知

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Introduction: International drug policy has traditionally been based on the premise that illegal drugs are more harmful than legal substances. Here, we investigate how students in the UK and Norway now perceive possible harms related to tobacco and alcohol-which are legal-and cannabis-which is illegal. Methods: Social science undergraduates at a university in the UK (n = 473) and Norway (n = 472) completed an anonymous survey. They were asked to rate the harms of tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis across five domains: (i) physical harms, (ii) mental health conditions, (iii) dependence, (iv) injuries, and (v) social consequences. Bivariate and multivariate analyses were used to compare the relative harms of the three substances across all the domains as well as possible differences between participants from the UK and Norway. Results: Tobacco was rated as most harmful with regard to physical harm and dependence; alcohol was rated as most harmful with regard to injuries and social consequences, while cannabis was rated as most harmful with regard to mental health. The total harms scores for alcohol were highest, slightly above those of cannabis. British students reported higher tobacco and alcohol harm scores than Norwegian students, while the opposite pattern was true for cannabis. Conclusions: The legal substance alcohol was rated by students as more harmful than the illegal substance cannabis. The findings may imply that young people in the years to come may be less supportive of a traditional drug policy based on criminalization, at least when it comes to cannabis. At the same time, one may hypothesize that liberal alcohol policies may receive little support, given students' perception of the possible harms associated with alcohol.
机译:简介:传统上,国际毒品政策的前提是非法毒品比合法物质更具危害性。在这里,我们调查英国和挪威的学生现在如何看待与烟草和酒精有关的可能的危害,这是合法的,而大麻则是非法的。方法:英国(n = 473)和挪威(n = 472)的一所大学的社会科学专业的本科生完成了一项匿名调查。他们被要求对五个领域的烟草,酒精和大麻的危害进行评估:(i)人身伤害,(ii)精神健康状况,(iii)依赖,(iv)伤害和(v)社会后果。使用双变量和多变量分析来比较三种物质在所有领域中的相对危害以及英国和挪威参与者之间的可能差异。结果:就人身伤害和依赖性而言,烟草被认为是最有害的。酒精在伤害和社会后果方面被认为是最有害的,而大麻在心理健康方面被认为是最有害的。酒精的总危害得分最高,略高于大麻。英国学生报告的烟草和酒精危害分数高于挪威学生,而大麻则相反。结论:学生认为合法物质酒精比非法物质大麻有害。研究结果可能暗示,未来几年的年轻人可能不太支持基于刑事定罪的传统毒品政策,至少在大麻方面如此。同时,鉴于学生对饮酒可能造成的危害的认识,人们可能会假设自由饮酒政策几乎得不到支持。

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