CRI490H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Barcode
24 Jul 2018
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Drug policy lecture 2 what does regulation look like: chapter 3: Microtaggants microscopic tracers that function as chemical barcode. Optimal drug pricing sufficiently high to discourage misuse, sufficiently low to ensure illegal undercutting is not profitable. Considerations in pricing include: economic burden of drug expenditures relative to total disposable income. Dependence: physiological reaction where the body comes to require the drug. Addiction: continued participation in a substance or behaviour despite serious harm to o(cid:374)e"s self, sig(cid:374)ifi(cid:272)a(cid:374)t others a(cid:374)d or (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)ity. Ge(cid:374)erally repla(cid:272)ed (cid:271)y (cid:862)su(cid:271)sta(cid:374)(cid:272)e use disorder(cid:863) recognizes a range of experiences: milder, moderate, severe: determining drug harms: Crucial steps in determining public health risks. Several ways of thinking of harm: toxicity, interactions, potential for problematic use patterns (dependence, addiction), personal health risks, method of preparation and administration, criminality, health burden etc. Definition and rankings can be useful: backed by evidence: drug scheduling: Classification of psychoactive drugs as laid out by the controlled drug and substances act.
