"Need Everyone Helping to Keep Off Because Everyone Helping to Keep On" - Reducing Harms from Cannabis use in Remote Indigenous Australian Communities Involves More Than Just Users

Substance Use & Misuse
Veronica E Graham, Alan R Clough

Abstract

Heavy cannabis use in remote Indigenous Australian communities potentially contributes to existing health disparities. Community members' perceptions of cannabis harms will support harm-minimization in these settings. To describe perceived cannabis harms reported by a cohort of Indigenous Australians living in small, isolated communities as an indication of their existing resources for change. Inductive thematic analysis of 407 semi-structured interviews with participants in a cohort study in three remote communities in Cape York in far north Queensland (Australia) revealed major areas of concern about cannabis. Three attitudinal categories were defined according to reported cannabis impacts and urgency for change: 1- "LOW CONCERN" said cannabis was a low priority community issue; 2- "SOME CONCERN" tolerated cannabis use but identified personal or community-level concerns; and 3- "HIGH CONCERN" expressed strong aversion to cannabis and identified serious personal or community-level harms. The characteristics and the patterns of concerns were summarized across the groups. "Category 1- LOW CONCERN" (n = 107), mostly current users, emphasized personal "financial impacts" and "stress." "Category 2 - SOME CONCERN" (n = 141) perceive...Continue Reading

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