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Record W4411386799 · doi:10.1016/j.psycom.2025.100218

A framework to assess risks for non-medical use of psychedelics: The liability for abuse of psychedelics questionnaire (LAPQ)

2025· article· en· W4411386799 on OpenAlexaff
Jennifer Swainson, Cláudio N. Soares, Roger S. McIntyre, Gilmar Gutiérrez, Atul Khullar, Jay Ching-Chieh Wang, Ron Shore

Bibliographic record

VenuePsychiatry Research Communications · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicPsychedelics and Drug Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British ColumbiaBrain and Cognition Discovery FoundationQueen's UniversityUniversity of TorontoProvidence Health CareUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLiabilityPsychologyBusiness

Abstract

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: As psychedelic research moves forward, trial design could benefit from assessments of potential risks of treatment. One such risk is future abuse or misuse of the drug or other drugs of abuse. Like the ketamine literature, psychedelic studies to date have not included measures designed to thoroughly address this risk. With aims to fill this gap, we previously developed a ketamine/esketamine drug liking and craving questionnaire (DLCQ), which primarily considered level of drug liking as a risk factor for potential future misuse or abuse. In adapting this for use with psychedelics, several considerations arose, including the likelihood that the psychedelic experience may be more universally pleasurable, and that desire to use psychedelics again may carry several underlying reasons. Here, we describe the Liability for Abuse of Psychedelics Questionnaire (LAPQ), which provides a framework incorporating 3 domains; substance use history, liking and craving for the drug in question, and subsequent changes in substance use patterns after exposure to the drug. While not a validated instrument, we propose this framework may be used in conjunction with other side effect tracking tools to more comprehensively address risks in psychedelic studies.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.034
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.034
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.034
Threshold uncertainty score0.182

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0340.034
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.003
Bibliometrics0.0070.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0020.004
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.444
GPT teacher head0.593
Teacher spread0.149 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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