Alcohol more dangerous than drugs

After a hard night boozing there's a multiple of things that could possibly go wrong such as car accidents, getting arrested for a DUI or simply getting your ass handed to you by a fellow bar patron. As you can see drinking can get you into a lot of kak.

A new study is suggesting that alcohol is more dangerous than drugs such as crack and heroin.


Alcohol is a more dangerous drug than both crack and heroin when the combined harms to the user and to others are assessed, British scientists have said.


Presenting a new scale of drug harm that rates the damage to users themselves and to wider society, the scientists rated alcohol the most harmful overall and almost three times as harmful as cocaine or tobacco.

 
According to the scale, devised by a group of scientists including Britain's Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs (ISCD) and an expert adviser to the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), heroin and crack cocaine rank as the second and third most harmful drugs.


Ecstasy is only an eighth as harmful as alcohol, according to the scientists' analysis.

Professor David Nutt, chairman of the ISCD, whose work was published in the Lancet medical journal, said the findings showed that "aggressively targeting alcohol harms is a valid and necessary public health strategy".


He said they also showed that current drug classification systems had little relation to the evidence of harm.

Alcohol and tobacco are legal for adults in Britain, South Africa and many other countries, while drugs such as ecstasy and cannabis and LSD are often illegal and carry the threat of prison sentences.

  "It is intriguing to note that the two legal drugs assessed - alcohol and tobacco - score in the upper segment of the ranking scale, indicating that legal drugs cause at least as much harm as do illegal substances," Nutt, who was formerly head of the influential British Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), said in a statement about the study.

Bla bla bla, you could tell me that booze is made from Camel's piss I'd still drink, there is no way in hell I'm opting for Heroine or crack as a better alternative to booze. Remember kids...9 out of 10 people who try heroine for the first time get addicted on the first try.

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