Alcohol is More Dangerous than Crack or Heroin, Study Claims
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Alcohol is even more dangerous than illegal drugs such as heroin and crack cocaine – when the ripple effect on society is taken into consideration, according to an authoritative study published in medical journal the Lancet. today which will reopen calls for the drugs classification system to be scrapped and a concerted campaign launched against drink.
Led by the sacked government drugs adviser David Nutt with colleagues from the breakaway Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs, the study says that if drugs were classified on the basis of the harm they do, alcohol would be class A, alongside heroin and crack cocaine.
British experts said alcohol was most destructive because it was so widely used and had devastating consequences not only for drinkers but for those around them.
The study evaluated substances including alcohol, cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and marijuana, ranking them based on how destructive they were to the individuals who took them and to society as a whole.
Researchers analysed how addictive a drug was and how it harmed the human body, in addition to other criteria such as environmental damage caused by the drug, its role in breaking up families and its economic costs, such as healthcare, social services and prison.
More: http://www.theblogismine.com/2010/11/01/alcohol-is-more-dangerous-than-crack-or-...
Led by the sacked government drugs adviser David Nutt with colleagues from the breakaway Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs, the study says that if drugs were classified on the basis of the harm they do, alcohol would be class A, alongside heroin and crack cocaine.
British experts said alcohol was most destructive because it was so widely used and had devastating consequences not only for drinkers but for those around them.
The study evaluated substances including alcohol, cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and marijuana, ranking them based on how destructive they were to the individuals who took them and to society as a whole.
Researchers analysed how addictive a drug was and how it harmed the human body, in addition to other criteria such as environmental damage caused by the drug, its role in breaking up families and its economic costs, such as healthcare, social services and prison.
More: http://www.theblogismine.com/2010/11/01/alcohol-is-more-dangerous-than-crack-or-...
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