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Alcohol named NZ's most harmful drug by university research paper (www.stuff.co.nz)
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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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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's crazy, they also kicked out the chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), David Nutt because he used data to show that the UK ranked the harm of drugs incorrectly, and showed that using MDMA was less harmful than horseback riding.

He was asked to go because he cannot be both a government adviser and a campaigner against government policy.

I guess facts have no place in government policy.

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