So there's a peculiar imbalance in terms of reporting that is clearly inappropriate in relation to the relative harms of ecstasy compared with other drugs.
With this breadth of information, researchers and the public can evaluate the relative benefits, compared to the relative harms, which could be realized with the new medications.
I was threatened with dismissal by two Home Office ministers and then sacked after publicising the findings of my peer-reviewed research into the relative harms of drugs in 2009.
Furthermore, any legislation that prohibits the sale of all psychoactive compounds without proper consideration of their relative harms and benefits presents an unwarranted threat to the long-standing freedoms of UK citizens.
We can make NSA disaster scenarios easier to compare by detailing the relative harms of privacy invasion vs. terrorist threats in a handy guide on their probability and scope.
After she dodged Polis' questions about drugs' relative harms, Rep. Steve Cohen told Leonhart about a Navy Seal he knew who used medical marijuana to increase his appetite and deal with other side effects of cancer treatment.
Certainly, the potential relative harms to each patient need to be discussed and weighed against the expected potential benefits.
To produce an expert-based consensus on the relative harms posed by 19 commonly used legal and illegal substances.
22 Briefly, the method is based on the principle that the relative harms of false positives and false negatives can be expressed in terms of a probability threshold.
In brief, the method is based on the principle that the relative harms of false positives (e.g. unnecessary biopsy) and false negatives (e.g. missed cancer) can be expressed in terms of a probability threshold.
Bad legislation could solidify the position of cigarettes, delay safer products, prohibit disclosure of relative harms, or otherwise interfere with market forces that ought to benefit nicotine addicts [ 104].
