了解国际上医用大麻的使用:为什么定义和上下文很重要
Myfanwy Graham1,2,3, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula3, Seema Choksy Pessar3
1Monash Addiction Research Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Addiction (Abingdon, England)
|July 1, 2025
概括
医用大麻使用报告在使用的自我报告指标的基础上有很大差异. 不同的国家在个人如何识别他们使用医用大麻方面表现出不同的模式,受政策方法的影响.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 大麻政策研究 大麻政策研究
- 医疗保健服务研究 医疗服务研究
背景情况:
- 了解医用大麻的使用对于政策制定和公共卫生至关重要.
- 对医用大麻使用的自我报告措施可能会有所不同,可能导致数据不一致.
- 需要进行国际比较,以了解不同的政策环境如何影响报告的医用大麻使用情况.
研究的目的:
- 通过使用不同的自我报告措施来识别医用大麻消费者的识别方式的变化.
- 评估这些识别率是否在具有不同的医用大麻政策的司法管辖区之间有所不同.
- 为了利用有关大麻使用的国际研究的证据进行政策洞察.
主要方法:
- 2021年国际大麻政策研究 (ICPS) 跨部门调查数据的二次分析.
- 包括来自美国,加拿大和澳大利亚的16951名报告去年使用大麻的受访者.
- 使用调整后勤回归,估计了四个医用大麻使用指标 (潜在授权,药品,治疗,自我识别) 的率.
主要成果:
- 治疗用途是最常见的医用大麻措施 (77.3%).
- 根据措施的比例有很大差异:自我识别 (28.2%),潜在的授权 (22.8%),和药品使用 (12.3%).
- 观察到国家特定的差异,澳大利亚人和美国人比加拿大人更有可能报告潜在的授权使用.
结论:
- 报告医用大麻使用的个人的比例高度依赖于所采用的具体措施.
- 报道的医用大麻使用情况在不同大麻政策的国家内和国家之间存在显著差异.
- 调查结果强调了在大麻研究和政策评估中仔细选择和解释自我报告的措施的重要性.
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