Comprehensive drug policies increase trust in local government: an analysis of authorities’ and residents’ perspectives in rural US Appalachian and Midwestern counties
In both the field surveys and the experiment, trust was positively associated with perceptions of governmental support for comprehensive drug policies. In addition, authorities (both real and experimentally simulated roles) consistently assessed the public's trust in them to be higher than did residents. Both effects were mediated by participants' beliefs in the government's effort to reduce drug use problems and optimism that drug use issues could be improved.
Authors
- Lisa Jean Moore (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7572-575X)
- Daniel D. Badger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7093-6021)
- Marta R. Durantini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1996-5710)
- John A. Mundell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4321-7237)
- Susan Urban
- Stephanie Vogel
- John P. Bentley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9241-6833)
- Tina Ramirez
- Michael C. Lovell
- Aashna Sunderrajan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3615-0118)
- Klára Major
- Gene A. Brewer
- Jered O. Ratliff (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-0894-9766)
- Sonia Johnson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2219-1384)
- Miranda Smith
- Dolores Albarracín (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9878-942X)
- Cynthia Hamilton
- Kathleen Collins (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3172-7088)
- Angela D. Settle
- Mandy Wat- son
- Kathleen Napier
- Stephen G. Ward (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6795-6002)
- Marion R. Sills (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1322-0822)
- Adam Stuart Foster (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5371-5905)
- Man‐pui Sally Chan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2984-0487)
- Sean Alcorn (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3533-6554)
- Sherry Kit Wa Chan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2712-5826)
- E. Marie Hearne Creech
- J Bush (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3338-750X)
- Douglas J. Wheeler
- Michael Railing
- Marilyn E. Swisher (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3590-3731)
- Courtney Midkiff
- Anna Wilson
- T. Barrett
- Pamela A. Williams (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1257-2351)
- Janet Ridley
- Norman K. Fry (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4862-6507)
- Bita Fayaz Farkhad (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2669-9986)
- T. J. Mackie
- Derek Wilson
- Vanessa Davis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9828-8038)
- Samantha Booker
- Katie Aston
- Alexander Jung
- Michael Grimm
- Peter M. Acton
- Laura D. Carsten Conner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8457-6837)
- Susan P. Montgomery (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8977-7988)
- Beth Booth
- Liliane Cambraia Windsor (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0172-5009)
- Thomas C. O’Brien (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7714-7359)
- Liu Xi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2604-3194)
- Michael Martin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4037-6462)
- Péter Bauer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9811-8688)
- Deborah Dillon
- S. Thorn
- Karen A. Osborne
- B. D. Hunt
- J. Hywel Thomas
- Lori L. Moore (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1517-4850)
- Marco Mohr
- Steve Hall
- Ann Elliot
- Angela Elisabeth Brown (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9170-8244)
- Ruth Griffin
- Frank Lynch
- A Harris
- John Hale
- T. J. Riley
- Nancy J. Bell
- Susie Ritgway
- Tracy Aaron
- Travis Rickford
- Trish Burchette
- Angela Stowers
- Anita Bretram
- Anthony Lockart
- Brandi Mackin
- Breanne Forbes-Hubbard
- Bree Ra-mey
- Chad Meador
- Charlene Rine
- Christina Bravata
- Connie Tinker
- David Milliron
- Denise Bryan
- Elizabeth Shahan
- Frances Vermillion
- Fred Wells Brason
- Garnet Sourtherland
- Gerald S. Bowker
- Glenn Steakley
- Isabel Barajas
- Jamie Colson
- Jennifer Berven
- Jennifer Dobbs
- Karla Heble
- Kelly Amick
- Ken Tombley
- Alice McCaffrey
- Kristen Gingery
- Kristine Ghering
- Lawson Koeppel
- Lori Bumba
- Madeleine Furlow
- Michelle Matern
- Tom Kyser
- Patri- cia Friel
- Sam Suiter
- Scott Shrewsberry
- Sean Furlow
- Stacey Crase
- Stephanie Furlow
Institutions
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Harm Reduction Journal
- Published
- 2025-03-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-024-01148-x
- Primary Topic
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00