Guys, according to a new study from a former UK chief drugs adviser, alcohol is more damaging to drinkers and to wider society compared to heroin or crack, and all three are far more harmful than cannabis, ecstasy, or magic mushrooms. That’s right; it’s about time for you to throw away those Tequilas and Jack. I’ll gladly ‘clean’ them away for you.
A psychiatrist and neuropsychopharmacologist named David Nutt put together the numbers for this study by giving each drug a score in categories like mental damage, physical damage, addictive qualities, contributions to crime, costs the economy, and harm to communities. Ironically, he was fired from his position as the British government’s chief adviser on drugs after releasing a similar drug-ranking study.
Well, alcohol came out top in the chart. But not falling very far behind would be heroin, crack and methylamphetamine. Funnily, even though booze didn’t rank among the top three for harm to one’s self, its harm to others score was so high that when the two were combined, it took the top spot of the entire survey with a whopping 72.
Here’s the list (ranked from most harmful to least):
* Alcohol 72
* Heroin 55
* Crack 54
* Crystal meth 33
* Cocaine 27
* Tobacco 26
* Amphetamine 23
* Cannabis 20
* GHB 18
* Benzodiazepines 15
* Ketamine 15
* Methadone 13
* Butane 10
* Qat 9
* Ecstasy 9
* Anabolic steroids 9
* LSD 7
* Buprenorphine 6
* Magic Mushrooms 5
* Getting high on life 0
Right, now we should all get drunk again.
via BBC UK
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