Science1 min ago
Alcohol
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Suppose a scientist had just discovered alcohol. Which, if any, drugs classification would it be given ?
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Hi Valmave. If you can check out the report "Drug harms in the UK: a multi-criteria decision analysis" led by Prof David Nutt a few years ago. In a nutshell (pardon the pun) they ranked 20 drugs (legal and illegal) on 16 measures of harm to the user and to wider society, such as damage to health, drug dependency, economic costs and crime. Alcohol was ranked the...
20:23 Wed 21st Nov 2012
Hi Valmave. If you can check out the report "Drug harms in the UK: a multi-criteria decision analysis" led by Prof David Nutt a few years ago. In a nutshell (pardon the pun) they ranked 20 drugs (legal and illegal) on 16 measures of harm to the user and to wider society, such as damage to health, drug dependency, economic costs and crime. Alcohol was ranked the most harmful drug in Britain, scoring 72 out of a possible 100, far more damaging than heroin (55) or crack cocaine (54).
An interesting choice of scientific advisor you've chosen to reflect your point of view, as one of his opinions when sacked by the then Government was As for his comments about horse riding being more dangerous than ecstasy, which you quote with such reverence, it is of course a political rather than a scientific point. However, he is a most eminent scientist, who I have an utmost respect for.