If we re ran your Lancet drug harm rankings analysis again, but this time imagining all drugs under a theoretical legally regulated model (something like Transform's 2009 'Blueprint for regulation' perhaps) wouldn't the results be very different, and doesn't this have huge implications for future policy? This point is perhaps most obvious with something like heroin where we have hugely different harms associated with the same drug when used illegally (associated with crime, unhygenic needle sharing, HIV, HepC, infection, overdose, etc) or in the context of a supervised Swiss-style heroin clinic (where such risks are reduced to zero).
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If we re ran your Lancet drug harm rankings analysis again, but this time imagining all drugs under a theoretical legally regulated model (something like Transform's 2009 'Blueprint for regulation' perhaps) wouldn't the results be very different, and doesn't this have huge implications for future policy? This point is perhaps most obvious with something like heroin where we have hugely different harms associated with the same drug when used illegally (associated with crime, unhygenic needle sharing, HIV, HepC, infection, overdose, etc) or in the context of a supervised Swiss-style heroin clinic (where such risks are reduced to zero).
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