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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
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The UK did a similar study over a decade ago and the government effectively buried the report because it didn't shore up their war on drugs rhetoric.
Alcohol is extremely harmful and a large amount of the harm for drugs is being caught with the drugs.
Good job.