PUBPOL 201 Quiz: Module 2 Lecture 4 Study Guide Vocab

• School: U of M
• Department: Public Policy
• Course: PUBPOL 201
• Professor: Paula Lantz

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For illicit behaviors: neutral regarding legalization or decriminalization: don"t want to further stigmatize the illicit behavior and reduce the harm. Staying out of the politics: treat people with dignity. Focusing on primary (preventing initiation/addiction to nicotine) and secondary prevention (thinking about current smokers and helping them to quit/cessation) Infant car seat laws: needle exchange programs, methadone clinics, take home naloxone (antidote drug to heroin overdose, condom distribution programs, prep (pre-exposure prophylaxis for hiv). It is trying to reduce harm of people suffering from disease. Some people think that harm reduction encourages unhealthy and illicit behaviors. Smokeless tobacco, water pipes, combustible tobacco: emerging products: e-cigarettes, snus, dissolvable -> health risks. Opinions on ends products uncertain: no long term affects observed because people have not used them for long (no longitudinal studies available, clinically approved: nicotine replacement therapy (nrt) Increasing use of ends: non-hispanic aian, highest rate, young people use at increasing rate (huge uptake of ends use in.