Answer: Food can be an obvious answer because people will not survive without food so they will die. And death means there will be a decrease on population size. So food can be a limiting factor that is dependent on population size.
The answer is confirmation bias. This is the tendency to look for evidence that will confirm ones hypothesis and ignoring anything else that does not lead to the hypothesis. In this situation confirmation bias is evident due to the fact that you look for anything that confirms your hypothesis and ignore anything else that does not point to drug abuse.
Your answer would be c. because sometimes you have to collect data. hope that helped