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The results of a new Otago University study comparing the harm caused by different drugs have been released. Here's the breakdown by drug:
This is the original paper in the Journal of Psychopharmacology: The New Zealand drug harms ranking study: A multi-criteria decision analysis
Other coverage:
Daily mail: the most harmful drugs, the results will shock you!
Results: alcohol and meth, shocking no one
I always regret opening the Daily Mail
Alcohol is extremely harmful and a large amount of the harm for drugs is being caught with the drugs.
Good job.
I love the lady on one news being completely disbelieving. I guess she doesn't like the idea of partaking of something with such a social stigma.
I like the format of this post. Also yeah alcohol is so bad. I've seen and made many mistakes under the influence. I should stop drinking but I like it.
I was in a similar boat. I thought I couldn't stop. But I've quit 5 years ago and it is awesome. There's a stopdrinking community at lemmy.world if you want to chat. Or, /r/stopdrinking is great.
I am glad they stated the obvious.
I found the breakdown super interesting:
