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Un estudio asegura que el alcohol es "más dañino que el crack o la heroína".
Un estudio sobre los efectos de las drojas en los consumidores y la sociedad en general concluyó que el alcohol es más peligroso y costoso que el crack o la heroína.
La investigación del Comité Independiente Científico sobre drojas (ISCD por sus siglas en inglés), publicada en la revista médica The Lancet, examinó los efectos de cada sustancia sobre los consumidores y los costos de éstas sobre las familias, el sistema de salud y de prisiones.
A cada droja se le dio una puntuación de cero a cien basada en criterios diversos. El alcohol obtuvo un total de 72 puntos; la heroína, 55; y el crack (una pasta derivada de la cocaína que puede ser fumada), 54.
(Fuente: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/ultimas_..._ultnot_alcohol_crack_cocaina_drogas_fp.shtml).
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Otra fuente un poco más amplia:
Scientists say alcohol worse than heroin
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 today.
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 Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), heroin and crack cocaine rank as the second and third most harmful drugs.
Ecstasy is only an eighth as harmful as alcohol, according to the scientists' analysis.
Professor David Nutt, chairman of the ISCD, whose work was published in the Lancet medical journal, said the findings showed that aggressively targeting alcohol harms is a valid and necessary public health strategy.
He said they also showed that current drug classification systems had little relation to the evidence of harm.
Alcohol and tobacco are legal for adults in Britain and many other countries, while drugs such as ecstasy and cannabis and LSD are often illegal and carry the threat of prison sentences.
"It is intriguing to note that the two legal drugs assessed - alcohol and tobacco - score in the upper segment of the ranking scale, indicating that legal drugs cause at least as much harm as do illegal substances," Nutt, who was formerly head of the influential British Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), said in a statement about the study.
Nutt was forced to quit the ACMD a year ago after publicly criticising ministers for ignoring scientific advice suggesting cannabis was less harmful than alcohol.
The World Health Organisation estimates that risks linked to alcohol cause 2.5 million deaths a year from heart and liver disease, road accidents, suicides and cancer - accounting for 3.8% of all deaths.
It is the third leading risk factor for premature death and disabilities worldwide.
In an effort to offer a guide to policy makers in health, policing, and social care, Nutt's team rated drugs using a technique called multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) which assessed damage according to nine criteria on harm to the user and seven criteria on harm to others.
Harms to the user included things such as drug-specific or drug-related death, damage to health, drug dependence and loss of relationships, while harms to others included crime, environmental damage, family conflict, international damage, economic cost, and damage to community cohesion.
Drugs were then scored out of 100, with 100 given to the most harmful drug and zero indicating no harm at all.
The scientists found alcohol was most harmful, with a score of 72, ***owed by heroin with 55 and crack with 54.
Among some of the other drugs assessed were crystal meth (33), cocaine (27), tobacco (26), amphetamine or speed (23), cannabis (20), benzodiazepines, such as Valium (15), ketamine (15), methadone (14), mephedrone (13), ecstasy (9), anabolic steroids (9), LSD (7) and magic mushrooms (5).
(Fuente: http://tvnz.co.nz/health-news/scientists-say-alcohol-worse-than-heroin-3873360).
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Según ese ranking de menos dañinas a más:
Setas alucinógenas (5).
LSD (7).
Anabolizantes (9).
Éxtasis (9).
Mefedrona (13).
Metadona (14).
Ketamina (15).
Valium (15).
Marihuana (20).
Speed o anfetaminas (23).
Tabaco (26).
Cocaína (27).
Metanfetaminas (33).
Crack (54).
Heroina (55).
Alcohol (72).
¿Alguien se cree esto?.
