Alcohol is more harmful than heroin

Alcohol is more harmful than heroin

A study published in the medical journal The Lancet found that alcohol is more harmful than heroin. The snuff and cocaine are considered equally harmful than ecstasy and LSD are among the least harmful. Member of the group joined the experts scored each product based on the harm, including physical and mental suffering, crime, drug costs for the economy and communities.
It was concluded modeling and amphetamines heroin, crack cocaine and methyl were the drugs most harmful to humans. But alcohol, heroin and crack are the most harmful to others. When the scores of the two types of damage in addition, alcohol appears to be the most harmful drug after heroin and crack.


The divergent results scamper to drug benefit long-standing administrative documentation, but the authors of the periodic report that their system based on expert consensus provides an accurate assessment of damages for policy makers.

Their findings reinforce the work done in the UK and the Netherlands, confirming that the current systems of classification of drugs have a modest relationship to demonstrate prejudice. Also, consistent with the conclusions of expert reports earlier said the orientation effects of alcohol is a valid public health policy and necessary to explain the Professor David Nutt, the former chief drug adviser in the UK.


Alcohol has been ranked three times more harmful to cocaine or snuff in the new scheme more complex. Ecstasy is considered to cause harm eighth of alcohol. It also contradicts the results of the Ministry of Interior to the alleged legal high mephedrone a class B drug, saying that alcohol was five times more harmful.


The list was published to coincide with a symposium on drug policy. What is a conference on drug policy may seem dependent on the set of problems to themselves or others, try to reduce. But if you take a total loss, then alcohol, heroin and cocaine are much more dangerous than all the others, added Professor Nutt.