Alcohol More Dangerous than Meth
I found an interesting piece today at the Anxiety Insights medical news site. It has a list of various drugs according to their dangers. Let me give you the list. I think most people will find it shocking.
Number 1 is the most dangerous.
1. Heroin
2. Cocaine
3. Barbituates
4. Methadone (street grade)
5. Alcohol
6. Ketamine
7. Benzodiazepines (Valium etc)
8. Amphetamines
9. Tobacco
10. Buprenorphine
11. Cannabis
12. Solvents
13. 4-MTA (Flatliners)
14. LSD
15. Methylphenidate (Ritalin)
16. Anabolic steroids
17. GHB
18. Ecstasy
19. Alkyl Nitrites
20. Khat
Alcohol is #5 methamphetamine is #8. So we continuously have all these meth scares and alcohol gets a pass. Tobacco at #9 is more dangerous than pot at #11. Alcohol the most common date rape drug at #5 is way more dangerous than the date rape drug GHB at #17. Ecstacy a well known party drug at #18 is much less dangerous than alcohol at #5. And that good old stand by "fry your brain" LSD? It is #14 compared to lose your conciousness alcohol at #5. You have to ask yourself, is there something wrong with this picture?
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2 comments:
Article is saying more harmful to the state not more harmful to the individual.
Milton Friedman Nobel Economist did a study of Prohibition. He said it didn't work. On top of that he said it was a policy that insured that innocents got killed and was therefor immoral.
On top of that alcoholics and other drug users may be self medicating for PTSD and other similar problems.
BTW the NIDA says addiction is in part genetic and in part environmental, what I prefer to call trauma as it is more precise.
Here is an interesting one on alcoholism, PTSD, and the Civil War.
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