psychoactive substance individual-level harmfulness

ID
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ADDICTO:0000831

Curation status
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Obsolete
Created
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20 Jan '21

Modified
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24 Aug '21

Parents
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Definition
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A psychoactive substance disposition to cause harm as a result of use by a person.

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Informal definition
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The potential that a substance has for harm caused by its use by a person.

Synonyms
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  • substance harmfulness
  • drug harmfulness
  • drug-related harm
Comment
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This class is a disposition of a product to cause harm when used by an individual. It needs to be distinguished from actual amount of harm caused by a product in a given situation which will depend on how the product is used and other aspects of the situation in which it is used. It refers to a harm from an individual's use. Harmfulness from use by a population is different because it depends on how how many people use the substance. Harmfulness itself is an aggregate of individual types of harm. This aggregation can be undertaken in an infinite number of ways which means that use of the class is only meaningful when the harm is precisely operationalised.

Fuzzy set
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No

Curator note
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There are many related classes for which the term 'harmfulness' is applied. AddictO uses the term to refer to a disposition. This is different from the actual harm caused in a given situation.

AddictO sub-ontology
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Product