Analysing pseudoephedrine/methamphetamine policy options in Australia using multi-criteria decision modelling

Manning, Matthew; Wong, Gabriel T. W.; Ransley, Janet; Smith, Christine

doi:10.1016/j.drugpo.2016.03.012

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“…the high number of unintentional doping cases), those composing the Prohibited List could draw to a greater degree on an assessment and differentiation of the individual and social harms produced or reduced in the particular working environment of elite sport and within different sport disciplines. Such assessment might be carried out as a multi-criteria decision analysis undertaken by expert groups from relevant fields (Manning, Wong, Ransley & Smith, 2016;Nutt et al, 2010;van Amsterdam & van den Brink, 2010), albeit assessing the specific characteristics of individual and social harms in a sporting context with a focus on occupational health and working conditions, and aiming towards a strategy/model most likely to result in a net reduction of harms in the working environment of elite sport.…”

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An (un)desirable trade of harms? How elite athletes might react to medically supervised ‘doping’ and their considerations of side-effects in this situation

Overbye

2018

International Journal of Drug Policy

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Interpreting results with the understanding of sport as an exceptional and risky working environment suggests that legalising certain 'doping' substances under medical supervision would create other/new types of harms, and this 'trade-off of harms and benefits' would be undesirable considering the occupational health, working conditions and well-being of most athletes. Assessing the risks and harms produced/reduced by specific drugs when considering sport as a precarious occupation may prove useful in composing the Prohibited List and reducing drug-related harm in sport.

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An (un)desirable trade of harms? How elite athletes might react to medically supervised ‘doping’ and their considerations of side-effects in this situation

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2018

International Journal of Drug Policy

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“…Common issues include rank reversal and hierarchy composition, the axiomatic foundations of the approach, possible selection bias around choice of respondents, and the scale used to measure the intensity of preferences. All these issues are addressed with reference to a previous study of the same nature (see Manning et al, 2013Manning et al, , 2016. Table 3 shows the weights of 24 factors across the seven stages of drug involvement among Hong Kong adolescents.…”

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“…Several knowledge translation methods have been adopted to synthesize, disseminate, exchange, and apply expert and practitioner knowledge to inform decision making (e.g., Bammer, ; Manning, Ransley, Smith, Mazerolle, & Cook, ; Manning, Wong, Ransley, & Smith, ; McDonald et al, ; Nutt, King, & Phillips, ). The multicriteria decision (MCD) method, as one of the methodologically validated methods commonly used in the decision sciences, has been applied to synthesize expert knowledge to analyse drug policy.…”

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“…Saaty () applied a MCD method (namely, Analytic Hierarchy Process [AHP]) to evaluate the benefits, opportunities, costs, and risks of legalizing marijuana. Manning et al (, ) adopted the AHP method to evaluate policy alternatives for dealing with the methamphetamine problem in Australia. The extant research has confirmed that MCD can provide a systematic and objective quantification of human experiences and judgements—information that advocates argue as one of the important influences on complex policy decision‐making processes.…”

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“…In short, policymakers are seeking solutions along the entire spectrum-from prevention to rehabilitation and treatment (Narcotics Division, 2016). & Smith, 2016;McDonald et al, 2009;Nutt, King, & Phillips, 2010).…”

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Preferential strategies for mitigating the harms of adolescent illicit drug involvement: A multicriteria decision analysis

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2018

Multi Criteria Decision Anal

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Multidisciplinary perspectives in informing complex policies are critical, but ineffectual when diverse differences are not adequately represented. Using multicriteria analysis, potential heterogeneity of key expert preferences for 19 drug interventions in Hong Kong was examined. Significant differences in preferences were found among academics, health professionals, and law enforcers regarding drug testing, and a range of law enforcement, harm reduction, and treatment interventions. The weighted consensual preference reveals overall support for preventative and treatment strategies, with decriminalization, needle syringe programmes, reactive policing strategies, and drug testing seen as less favourable. The results assist policymakers in understanding the profound knowledge our experts possess and building robust policy that is informed by empirical evidence generated from a commonly used method in the decision sciences. Importantly, these results can inform the development of targeted institutional and criminal justice policies aimed at mitigating the adverse harms and consequences of drug involvement.

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Performance indicators of public private partnership in Bangladesh

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Smith

2019

IJPPM

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop weights of key performance areas (KPAs) and performance indicators for public private partnerships (PPPs) in Bangladesh. Since a variety of PPP arrangements is observable, different performance measurement approaches exist in the literature. However, analysing the relative importance of indicators influencing the performance score of particular projects using the perspective of developing countries remains unexplored. Design/methodology/approach The authors’ method involves application of the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) to develop weights for eight KPAs for which 41 contributing performance indicators have been developed. In total, 68 respondents (62 per cent of the PPP practitioners in Bangladesh) participated in a structured questionnaire survey and their judgements have been found to be consistent, using consistency ratios, a geometric consistency index and one-way ANOVA test. Findings “Feasibility analysis”, “life cycle evaluation and monitoring” and “optimal risk allocation” are the most significant performance indicators in Bangladesh. “Financing” is the most important KPA, followed by “planning and initiation” and “transparency and accountability”. Interestingly, unlike the cost, time and quality measures of the public sector comparator analysis used in most developed countries, a different set of indicators and KPAs are found dominant. Research limitations/implications This suggests that performance indicators and their weights may differ for developing countries. Future research could usefully focus on testing this model in different countries and applying it to derive performance scores for individual PPPs. Originality/value An application of AHP in determining weights of the performance indicators represents a major contribution to the literature on PPP performance measurement in the developing countries including Bangladesh.

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Analysing pseudoephedrine/methamphetamine policy options in Australia using multi-criteria decision modelling

Cited by 6 publications

References 35 publications

An (un)desirable trade of harms? How elite athletes might react to medically supervised ‘doping’ and their considerations of side-effects in this situation

An (un)desirable trade of harms? How elite athletes might react to medically supervised ‘doping’ and their considerations of side-effects in this situation

Preferential strategies for mitigating the harms of adolescent illicit drug involvement: A multicriteria decision analysis

Performance indicators of public private partnership in Bangladesh

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