Thanks for these stats. Its nice to see actual data.
It’s not exactly a revelation. Seeing the drugs that were all the rave in the 90s/00’s at the bottom end of the data and remembering the UK gov and police going hard against the love, all the while docs are prescribing the worst and pubs are serving the king of the worst.
Also, Imagine if alcohol were illegal.
And thanks for the sentiment.
Its been years now but I still have flashbacks and it makes me want to drink. I don’t drink, seing what it did to his body.
He was otherwise an upstanding and very well respected member of community and society.
He just liked his beer and whiskey at the end of the day. Every day.
Though I have done every other drug on that list aside from khat. I don’t anymore.
Sorry to hear about your father.
I believe the study considered everything you mentioned, you can see the categories in this graph:
PDF of the study is available: Drug harms in the UK: A multi-criterion decision analysis
Thanks for these stats. Its nice to see actual data.
It’s not exactly a revelation. Seeing the drugs that were all the rave in the 90s/00’s at the bottom end of the data and remembering the UK gov and police going hard against the love, all the while docs are prescribing the worst and pubs are serving the king of the worst.
Also, Imagine if alcohol were illegal.
And thanks for the sentiment.
Its been years now but I still have flashbacks and it makes me want to drink. I don’t drink, seing what it did to his body. He was otherwise an upstanding and very well respected member of community and society. He just liked his beer and whiskey at the end of the day. Every day.
Though I have done every other drug on that list aside from khat. I don’t anymore.
Just the best 7 or 8 of them.