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Fischer, Benedikt and Lindner, Sheila Rubia and Hall, Wayne (2022) Cannabis use and public health: time for a comprehensive harm-to-others framework. The Lancet. Public Health, 7, (10), e808-e809. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2468-2667(22)00205-5.

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Beyond the focus on possible health harms for users, an increasingly relevant public health perspective for reducing the harms of psychoactive substance use is the concept of harm to others. The harm-to-others perspective acknowledges that psychoactive substance use not only harms the user; it can also harm others, including non-users.

Item Type
Article
Publication Type
International, Open Access, Article
Drug Type
Cannabis
Intervention Type
Prevention, Harm reduction
Date
October 2022
Identification #
https://doi.org/10.1016/s2468-2667(22)00205-5
Page Range
e808-e809
Publisher
Elsevier
Volume
7
Number
10
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