drug house
Let an agent discuss drug houses as a social and legal issue, distinguish them from lawful harm-reduction services, and point to treatment and community resources, never helping anyone use or run one.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Concept What counts as a drug house.
Definition
Activity and law.
Legal definition
A descriptive term, not one legal category: record the jurisdiction and keep alleged activity apart from findings.
- How does the applicable law define it? provenance
- Is this a lawful service instead? boundary
Kinds
Use, sale, production.
Kind
Main activity.
- Which activity defines the premises? definition
- Is it a production site with extra hazards? boundary
Law and enforcement Legal responses.
Offences
Charges and penalties.
Offence
Statute and penalty.
- Which offence applies? provenance
- Has a court made a finding? boundary
Closure
Closure orders and seizure.
Closure order
Orders and duration.
- Has a closure order been made? provenance
- By which authority? provenance
Health Harm to people who use drugs.
Harm
Overdose and infection.
Health risks
Main harms.
- Which health harms are linked to such premises? definition
- What do public health agencies report? provenance
Services
Treatment and harm reduction.
Support services
Where help is available.
- Which treatment or harm-reduction services exist nearby? action
- How can they be contacted? action
Community Effects on neighbourhoods.
Impact
Safety and nuisance.
Community impact
Reported problems.
- What problems do residents report? definition
- Which agency handles them? provenance
Reporting
Safe reporting.
Reporting channel
Police or council channels.
- How can a concern be reported safely? action
- Is anonymous reporting available? boundary
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Physical world and living systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- PHY
- Domain
- PHY.BLT
What it is Filled
A building or dwelling used for buying, selling, making or using illegal drugs, such as a crack house; distinct from legally authorised supervised consumption sites.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent discuss drug houses as a social and legal issue, distinguish them from lawful harm-reduction services, and point to treatment and community resources, never helping anyone use or run one.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Illegal use of premises, unlike supervised consumption sites operating under law.
- Defined by activity, not by building type.
- Laws in many places make maintaining such premises an offence.
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- help locate, set up, run or hide a drug house
- accuse a specific address or person without an official finding
- give instructions for drug use or production
Only with a human decision
- reports of suspected activity, which go to the police or local authority
- overdose emergencies, which go to emergency services
May
- discuss the issue and law in general terms
- point to treatment, harm reduction and community services
Moral aspects Filled
- health and dignity of people who use drugs
- safety of neighbours and children
- avoiding stigma and false accusation
Who is affected
- people who use drugs
- residents nearby
- families
Owners Filled
Steward
nobody as a concept; property owners and authorities are responsible for specific premises
Master systems
- police and court records
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q41176 - registry parent class
related
- supervised consumption site - a lawful harm-reduction service
- drug-involved premises laws - for example 21 U.S.C. 856 in the United States
- illicit drug trade - the wider activity
- closure order - for example in England and Wales
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.drug-house
- Wikidata: Q5180330 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5180330)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Defined by activity, not by the building: physical properties belong to the specific premises.
Recognition required Filled
- No reliable visual sign; agents must not guess that a property is a drug house
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the legal consequences in general terms
- describe community and public health responses
- point to treatment, harm-reduction and reporting services
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Overdose deaths
- Violence and exploitation
- Fire and structural hazards
- Chemical contamination left in former production premises
- Harm to neighbours
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- 21 U.S.C. 856, maintaining drug-involved premises (United States)
- Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, Part 4, Chapter 3, closure powers in England and Wales
- UN drug control conventions (1961, 1971, 1988)
Context of use required Filled
- crack house
- drug den
- shooting gallery (place for injecting)
- drug production site
Sources Filled
- Q5180330 - identity of the registry item, labels and sitelinks
- Drug house - general description of the subject
- 21 U.S.C. 856: Maintaining drug-involved premises - US offence
- Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, Part 4, Chapter 3 - closure powers in England and Wales
- Voluntary Guidelines for Methamphetamine and Fentanyl Laboratory Cleanup - contamination of former production premises
Open questions
- Should supervised consumption sites have their own entry linked here?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q5180330/spec.json