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I would say there's more people who drink alcohol in the world than people doing all those other drugs combined (except tobacco), so of course it's going to come through their test as the worst.
You have to drink a ton of booze to get alchohol poisoning. You do NOT have to do a "ton" of most of those other drugs to OD on them. Given a level playing field drugs like crack, lsd, heroin, etc wreak far more devastation on the frequent user in a far shorter period of time than most drinkers of alcohol would ever see.
What would be more level and more relevant would be to compare the % of hardcore serious problem drunks to the % of heroin/crack/etc users whose lives are seriously negatively impacted.
Since there are a lot of people who drink in moderation and don't have a problem with it I'd say Alcohol would test well under the rest. It's only showing as being the worst because 1000 x more people drink.
Do the authors of that study really want alcohol made illegal? Um, wasn't that already tried in the 20's? From what I've heard it didn't go over well.
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