Development of a rational scale to assess the harm of drugs of potential misuse.

By David J. Nutt, L. King, William Saulsbury, Colin Blakemore. The Lancet, 2007

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The Five Factor Model of personality and evaluation of drug consumption risk (2015, background): “We included control participants who had never used these substances, those who had used them in the distant past, up to and including persons who had used the drug in the past day, avoiding the procrustean data-gathering and classifying methods which may occlude an accurate picture of drug use beha”
Ketamine use: a review. (2012, methodology): “The ‘rational scale’ developed by Nutt and colleagues [22] was used as a framework for assessing the harms associated with ketamine use.”
Prevention of Problem Gambling: A Comprehensive Review of the Evidence (2008, background): “ingestion) and drug half-life are potent determinants of the dependency-forming potential of different substances (Nutt et al., 2007).”
Alcoholism: a systems approach from molecular physiology to addictive behavior. (2009, background): “Alcohol use and abuse not only entails deleterious consequences to the physical and psychological health of the afflicted individuals (345), but also serious societal and economic fallout in the form of criminality, decreased productivity, and increased healthcare costs.”