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The perceived risk of illicit drug use and views on drug policy in the general population (2023)
Auteur(s) :
SAVONEN, J. ;
HAKKARAINEN, P. ;
KARJALAINEN, K.
Année
2023
Page(s) :
164-172
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Discipline :
EPI (Epidémiologie / Epidemiology)
Thésaurus géographique
FINLANDE
Thésaurus mots-clés
PRODUIT ILLICITE
;
POPULATION GENERALE
;
FACTEUR DE RISQUE
;
PERCEPTION
;
REPRESENTATION SOCIALE
;
POLITIQUE
;
CANNABIS
;
ETUDE TRANSVERSALE
Résumé :
This article analyzes the riskiness attached to illicit drug use by means of a social representations framework. The implications of these social representations are further studied through their associations with views on drug policy: restrictive control and harm reduction measures. The data for the study is from a Finnish Drug Survey (N = 3229). Latent class analysis (LCA) and multinomial logistic regression analysis were used to analyze the data. Four representational profiles of perceived risk were identified: high-risk (70% of respondents), cannabis OK (15%), experimenting OK (10%), and low-risk (2%). All illicit drug use was considered as a moderate or high risk in the high-risk profile. Cannabis was considered less risky than other substances in the cannabis OK profile and experimenting was a less risky way of use in the experimenting OK profile. Most people in the low-risk profile considered the risks related to illicit drug use as nonexistent or minor. These representational profiles were also connected to opinions on drug policy: those who saw the most risks with use tended to support restrictive control measures, while those who considered illicit drug use to be less risky were more accepting toward harm reduction measures.
Affiliation :
University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Cote :
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