The phrase "acute harm" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe serious or severe damage or injury, often in a medical or psychological context.
Example: "The patient suffered acute harm due to the delayed treatment of their condition."
Alternatives: "severe damage" or "serious injury."
Prevention efforts might aim to inform drinkers of the problems associated with deliberately inducing alcohol tolerance, and focus on developing alternative strategies for minimizing acute harm from drinking.
I got into a little trouble for comparing the risks of death and serious injury from horse-riding and ecstasy, so I should be sure to say that whilst horse-riding really is comparably risky to the class A drug, in terms of acute harm, I expect that khat use is more often seriously problematic than cat-ownership.
Long-term damage, to be distinguished from acute harm, is induced in 50%% of the irradiated persons by a single exposure of 17 Gy and by chronic exposure of 69 Gy (cumulative dose).
Initial studies on kratom suggest it has low potential for acute harm and possible therapeutic applications.
Most scientific literature has also noted that the plant has a low potential for abuse or acute harm, such as overdose.
Being male and having male sexuality meant that I myself could potentially cause the same acute harm and trauma I'd experienced.
Due to the concentration of Black households affected by the furlough, majority-Black counties should brace themselves for acute harms.
He further argued that this type of association is most likely seen with respect to acute harms from alcohol, typically related to HED, such as accidents and violence.
Our indicator of chronic alcohol-related harm – cirrhosis – was more strongly related to off-sales than on-sales densities, as predicted, but this was also the case for all alcohol-related health outcomes (combining chronic and acute harms).
Alcohol abuse is generally more common among younger male drinkers, and is typically associated with experiencing the acute harms of high-risk alcohol consumption without dependency, such as injuries due to hazardous behaviors while intoxicated [ 26].
This, however, is usually related to certain types of harms, for example, liver cirrhosis, which develops over a longer period of time than do acute harms, but even for these types of harms an effect may be observed in a shorter perspective on an aggregated level (Herttua et al., 2008a).
