"Many of the harms of drugs are affected by their availability and legal status, which varies across countries, so our results are not necessarily applicable to countries with very different legal and cultural attitudes to drugs." (1)
And I'm still confused - are they weighting for per-user, or overall?
Under a per-user model this is interesting.
Under an "overall" model this is obvious (legality of alcohol)
Since neither the linked article or the original study make this clear, I'm voting by clicking "flag"
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From the original study:
"Many of the harms of drugs are affected by their availability and legal status, which varies across countries, so our results are not necessarily applicable to countries with very different legal and cultural attitudes to drugs." (1)
And I'm still confused - are they weighting for per-user, or overall?
Under a per-user model this is interesting.
Under an "overall" model this is obvious (legality of alcohol)
Since neither the linked article or the original study make this clear, I'm voting by clicking "flag"
(1) Source: http://www.chanvre-info.ch/info/en/IMG/pdf/drug-harms-in-the...
Unfortunately, it seems that it's an "overall" model -- see under "Study Design" in the "Methods" section of the paper.
There are "individual harms" that take account the harm done to the user himself or herself.
But, "the extent of individual harm is shown by the criteria listed as to others take account indirectly of the number of users"
(emphasis mine)
Unfortunately, parts of the study are well-thought, but others, not so much.