LONDON —
Alcohol is a more dangerous drug than both crack and heroin when the
combined harms to the user and to others are assessed, British
scientists said Monday. Presenting a new scale of drug harm that
rates the damage to users themselves and to wider society, the
scientists rated alcohol the most harmful overall and almost three times
as harmful as cocaine or tobacco. According to the scale,
devised by a group of scientists including Britain's Independent
Scientific Committee on Drugs (ISCD) and an expert adviser to the
European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), heroin
and crack cocaine rank as the second and third most harmful drugs. |
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