Drug toxicity graph showing that drinking is more harmful than heroin and cocaine

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A study that alcohol is more harmful than heroin and cocaine was published in medical journal "Lancet".

This is a report written by Professor David Nutt who was a former chief medicine advisor of the British government in collaboration with other researchers and shows 20 kinds of drugs by harmfulness to drug users and society according to 16 standards is.

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Professor David Nutt was fired by former Labor Party's Home Affairs Minister Alan Johnson who organized an independent scientific committee aimed at investigating drug problems without any political interference as a result. One of the other members except him has become Dr. Les King, another former government advisor who stopped about the matter that Professor David Nutt came in, and two more experts joined in addition to this The research group scored for each drug the harmfulness including mental / physical damage, dependency, crime and economic and social overall costs.

This is the figure. We conclude that heroin · cocaine · methyl amphetamine is the most harmful medicine to the individual and conclude that alcohol · heroin · crack · cocaine is the most harmful to society. Furthermore, adding the harmfulness to this individual, society, and both, alcohol has become more harmful, that is, the most harmful drug than heroin and cocaine.


According to Professor David Nutt, "Although cracks and cocaine are more toxic than alcohol, alcohol is the most harmful because it is very widely used, hundreds of thousands of people thirsting alcohol daily struggling to get alcohol "And pointed out that the current classification system of drugs has little relation with the degree of harm and that is why it shows that it is truly harmful, It is important to separate harm from harm to society.