Friday, 30 October 2009

Alcohol is the fifth most dangerous drug

Professor David Nutt has just been sacked as the government's drugs advisor.It seemed he favoured scientific facts over political expediency.

I haven't managed to find his full ranking of drugs danger but the article I've linked to contains this snippet:

"Alcohol ranks as the fifth most harmful drug after heroin, cocaine, barbiturates and methadone. Tobacco is ranked ninth. Cannabis, LSD and ecstasy, while harmful, are ranked lower at 11, 14 and 18 respectively"

So be careful out there!

EDIT: The full report from Professor Nutt is here.
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2 comments:

  1. Lost2 November 2009 at 00:27

    I'm going to pretend that I never read this. :)

    -Lost

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  2. Ed2 November 2009 at 18:11

    To be fair to the professor he wasn't having a go at booze, he was just saying that the drugs classifications make no sense.

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