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Drug experts say alcohol worse than crack, heroin.
British scientists said that alcohol is a more harmful drug than both heroin
and crack when the combined dangers to the user and to others are assessed.
Displaying a new scale of drug dangers that rates the damage to users
themselves and to thier wider society, the scientists rated alcohol the most
dangerous overall and almost three times as dangerous as tobacco or cocaine.
According to the scale, which devised by a group of scientists including
Britain's Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs (ISCD) and an expert
adviser to the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
(EMCDDA), heroin and crack cocaine rank as the second and third most dangerous
drugs.
Also according to the scientists' analysis, ecstasy is only an eighth as
dangerous as alcohol.
Professor David Nutt, chairman of the ISCD, whose work was published in the
Lancet medical journal, said that the results presented that "aggressively
targeting alcohol damages is a valid and necessary public health strategy".
Also he said they showed that current drug sorting systems had little relation
to the proofs of harm.
Alcohol and tobacco are legal for adults in Britain and many other countries,
while drugs like cannabis and ecstasy and LSD are illegal.
Nutt, who was formerly head of the influential British Advisory Council on the
Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), said in a statement about the study that It is
intriguing to note that the two legal drugs assessed --tobacco and alcohol --
score in the upper segment of the sorting scale, indicating that legal drugs
cause at least as much damage as do illegal substances.
Nutt was forced to quit the ACMD a year ago after publicly criticising
ministers for ignoring scientific advice suggesting cannabis was less dangerous
than alcohol.
The World Health Organisation assesses that dangers linked to alcohol cause 2.5
million deaths a year from heart and liver illnesses, road accidents, cancer
and suicides --accounting for 3.8% of all deaths--. It is the third leading
danger factor for disabilities and premature death worldwide.
In an effort to offer a guide to policy makers in health, policing, and social
care, Nutt's team classed drugs using a technique called multicriteria decision
analysis (MCDA) which assessed harms according to 9 criteria on harm to the
user and seven criteria on harm to others.
Dangers to the user included things like drug-specific or drug-related death,
damage to health, drug dependence and loss of relationships, while damages to
others included crime, environmental damage, family conflict, international
damage, economic cost, and damage to community cohesion.
Drugs were then scored out of 100, with 100 given to the most dangerous drug and
zero indicating no danger at all.
The scientists found alcohol was most dangerous, with a score of 72, followed by
heroin with 55 and crack with 54.
Source:http://healthy-discoveries.blogspot.com/2010/12/drug-experts-say-alcohol-worse-than.html
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