Sentences with phrase «social harm»

However, today ACMD hit back, saying the committee report was marred by «errors and misconceptions», particularly in the accusation that the council did not spent enough time assessing social harm of drugs.

Since we began in December 2012, we have added to our concerns the economic and social harm caused by rocketing power prices and unreliable power supplies, the product of heavily subsidised and intermittent wind power: the results that have played out in Australia's wind power capital, South Australia, will cripple that State at an economic and social level for decades to come.

The problem is that when something is tabooed it causes more social harm and evil than good — similar to the Prohibition era when the sale of alcohol was dragged underground and caused an outbreak of organised crime.

consumer and social harm without detection and enforcement by regulatory or police authorities.

The folks at the ACLU who, as Rauch points out, have already brought a lawsuit to defend «polygamy rights» evidently think that polygamy can be practiced without the measure of social harm Rauch is concerned about.

Does scientific misconduct often cause real social harm?

In this role, I'm tasked to perform a statewide inter-organizational social network analysis to uncover the relationships between legal, health, information and social service organizations to better understand their legal referral pathways for early detection of health and social harming legal issues.

One must balance that duty against very great social harms that such client conduct may represent (as it certainly did in the Volkswagen matter, where the conduct is both shocking to the conscience and productive of great physical harm to the public).

The assessment considers the following questions: (1) What social harms are we trying to remedy through the legislation?

Where it occurs, petrol sniffing is also associated with a range of health and social harms including increased violence, acquired brain injury, property damage, child abuse and neglect, dispossession of Elders and theft.

Our goals are to (1) provide our audience with alternative resources regarding criminalization, inequality, and social harm as well as (2) encourage more action - oriented relationships with groups or social phenomena of study.

Way back in 2008, I wrote about Wal - Mart's emerging effort to cut environmental and social harms from its business operations by exerting influence back along globe - spanning supply chains.

Through their lifestyles, they are trying to oppose the universal pursuit of growth (in development and in economics), which according to them, creates far more social harm than objective benefits.

Monetary damages can be awarded to compensate for physical, emotional, financial, and social harms caused by an accident.

It could be in terms of social harm or psychological harm.

Mr. Sullivan has no interest whatever in reconstructing a Catholic sexual ethic, or any other kind of ethic that might propose constraints or moral orderings on the satisfaction of sexual desires, apart from a few narrowly defined causes of possible «social harm.»

And yes, if this experience trumps or overwhelms other concerns» the vows of marriage, the trust of a faithful relationship, the duty we bear to children» then it can be a social harm.

• Nearly half (47 percent, or 81 million) of the adults in the United States have at some point, to some degree, suffered physical, psychological or social harm as a result of someone else's drinking; 21 million say they have suffered greatly.

The social harm done by alcohol abuse almost certainly is increased by the imperfections of the current tax regime, and so has been the problem of oversupply in the wine industry.

His actions and words spoke of injustice and social harm and the good we must do to counteract it.

A: I think the challenge here will be for the creators and policy - makers to agree upon who should be held liable in cases where robots cause social harm, and some common standards to potentially limit liability.

The Home Office's own report from 2011 found there was «a general lack of robust evidence on the link between khat use and social harms».

The report added that there was «no evidence of a direct causal link» between the drug and either medical or social harms.

Similarly, the ABC drugs classification system has been criticised for combining physical and social harm caused with criminal penalties.

Questioner who would prefer to remain anon asks: In light of overwhelming evidence of the social harm done by income inequality, do you agree that promoting greater «equality of outcome» (rather than merely «equality of opportunity») should now move to the very top of Labour's agenda?

It classifies drugs using a risk assessment matrix, which covers nine types of term divided between physical harm, dependence and social harms.

The report said there had been no convincing evidence that the consumption of khat is linked to any medical or social harm, and found that to control it as a Class C drug would be «disproportionate».

Theresa May's ban on khat was not based on any evidence of medical or social harm and must be stopped before it becomes law, an influential committee of MPs found today.

The various panels used decision analysis to determine psychological, physical and social harm to users and to those around them.

In a letter to the Guardian, the scientists wrote that «the ACMD clearly recommended — for the third time in the last six years — that cannabis remains a class C drug, and did so after examining all the available and latest evidence on short - and long - term health risks, as well as social harms, public attitudes and policing priorities.»

Of the top 478 extreme wildfires — those that exhibited extreme behaviors, such as growing to massive sizes or burning hotter than expected — 30 percent were classified as «disasters,» in that they caused substantial economic or social harms.

While I broadly agree with Dick Taverne's article calling for a rational drug policy (27 November 2010, p 26), it seems to miss the point that the social harm done by a drug is subjectively defined.

Researching the social harms that might accrue following participation in research — such as discrimination by insurance companies.

Thus, the VRC has established multiple safeguards to protect volunteers from physical and social harm.

Are we helping our children reach greater heights by pushing higher level academics down or will we be doing long - term educational and social harm?

Stephanie Rosenbloom had a story in yesterday's paper on Wal - Mart's plan to cut environmental and social harms from the operations of the thousands of companies that supply its products.

Had they succeeded, they would have done irreparable economic and social harm to Montana.

You can request to recover non-economic damages if you have suffered injuries resulting in emotional, mental, or social harms.

We agree with the application judge that the prohibition is not arbitrary, because it targets many of the social harms associated with bawdy - houses.

Recreational vehicle accidents can be very traumatic and cause you to suffer emotional, psychological, and social harms.

Has the Court concluded that the perceived social harm of polygamy is a «legitimate concern of government,» and the perceived social harm of homosexuality is not?