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| Title |
Effect of reclassification of cannabis on hospital admissions for cannabis psychosis: A time series analysis
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|---|---|
| Published in |
International Journal of Drug Policy, July 2013
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| DOI | 10.1016/j.drugpo.2013.05.016 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Ian Hamilton, Charlie Lloyd, Catherine Hewitt, Christine Godfrey |
| Abstract |
The UK Misuse of Drugs Act (1971) divided controlled drugs into three groups A, B and C, with descending criminal sanctions attached to each class. Cannabis was originally assigned by the Act to Group B but in 2004, it was transferred to the lowest risk group, Group C. Then in 2009, on the basis of increasing concerns about a link between high strength cannabis and schizophrenia, it was moved back to Group B. The aim of this study is to test the assumption that changes in classification lead to changes in levels of psychosis. In particular, it explores whether the two changes in 2004 and 2009 were associated with changes in the numbers of people admitted for cannabis psychosis. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 175 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 57 | 33% |
| United States | 17 | 10% |
| Australia | 9 | 5% |
| Canada | 5 | 3% |
| South Africa | 4 | 2% |
| Germany | 3 | 2% |
| New Zealand | 3 | 2% |
| Austria | 1 | <1% |
| Mexico | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 11 | 6% |
| Unknown | 64 | 37% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 141 | 81% |
| Scientists | 21 | 12% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 9 | 5% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 1% |
| Unknown | 2 | 1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 80 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| India | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 78 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 15 | 19% |
| Student > Bachelor | 11 | 14% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 9 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 9 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 8 | 10% |
| Other | 15 | 19% |
| Unknown | 13 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 14 | 18% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 13 | 16% |
| Psychology | 11 | 14% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 4 | 5% |
| Computer Science | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 14 | 18% |
| Unknown | 22 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 225. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 October 2022.
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#171,758
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Outputs from International Journal of Drug Policy
#51
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#1,056
of 206,943 outputs
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#2
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Altmetric has tracked 25,626,416 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,072 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 24.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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