SOC 014 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Blood Alcohol Content, Drug Overdose, Baud
24 Apr 2020
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Drug use has similar considerations as for poverty. Substance use can lead to stigmatization and deviant substance users may face negative repercussions. Internationally, excellent data is collected in the global burden of diseases, injuries and. Risk factors (gbd) study on health: number of deaths from substance use overdose are included, but does not include how substances can lead to indirect death via disease and disability. Another way to look at substance use is to ask how many people use drugs: us stands out, not in terms of alcohol use disorder, but in terms of drug use disorders. Russia has a very high share of the population with alcohol use disorder: drug use disorder includes the whole range of illicit substances, but not tobacco. Could be a problem through a public health standpoint because the impact of some drugs is greater than others (1) the study combines them all in one, negating the individual impacts.
