"The drug is not the problem" : the perceptions of those who have experienced substance addiction on Canadian drug policy
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In recent years thousands of people have died due to illicit drug overdoses caused by increasingly powerful and contaminated substances offered through the illicit drug market (Corace et al., 2019). The current drug-related overdose crisis has presented an opportunity for drug policy changes throughout Canada. While the current government has made progressive changes to Canadian drug policy in recent years, further research on effective and efficient drug policy is warranted to combat the growing concerns related to the harms associated with drug use and substance addiction.\nThis study furthers the understanding of how those who have experienced substance addiction view the current and past drug policies in Canada. This research also served to gain this population’s insight on the effective and ineffective drug strategies within the system and what approach would best prevent and treat substance addiction. To complete this research, 19 qualitative one-on-one interviews were conducted with individuals who have experienced or are currently experiencing substance addiction.\nSeveral related themes emerged from the interviews, including findings that demonstrate the support among people who have had substance addiction for: the decriminalization of all illicit substances in Canada; a legalized safe supply of specific illicit substances; a rehabilitated and modern approach to treatment programs for substance addiction; and the reduction or elimination of stigmatization towards people who use drugs. The findings of this research add to the growing body of literature that considers the perspectives of those who are addicted to illicit substances – a population that is arguably the most affected by drug policy.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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".