Drug Harm Index: Measuring the Impact of Illegal Substances

A dataset likely containing metrics for a Drug Harm Index, a tool for quantifying the societal and individual impact of illegal drugs. It was authored by Ziggy MacDonald for the UK Home Office and is hosted on the paperswithcode platform. The specific data volume, time range, and column details are not provided in the metadata.

Use Cases

• Ranking drugs by harm score for policy prioritization (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Analyzing correlations between drug types and specific harm metrics (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Modeling the societal cost of drug use for economic impact studies (inferred from domain, verify after download)

Strengths

• Published by the UK Home Office, a government department.
• Hosted on paperswithcode, a platform for research with code.

Limitations

• Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download.
• Row count, column definitions, and file formats are unknown.
• License is listed as 'closed', which may restrict usage.

Provenance

Source

Home Office (UK government department)

Collection Method

Method of data gathering is not specified.

Time Range

Temporal coverage is not specified.

Freshness

Last updated date is unknown.

Geography

Likely focuses on the United Kingdom, given the author's organization.