[Vision2020] Alcohol called most dangerous intoxicant

Art Deco deco at moscow.com
Mon Nov 1 11:53:35 PDT 2010


You're talking to the wrong person.  I'd like to see smoking banned from all public places and places where the general public is likely to access, like shopping malls.  I'm tired of secondhand smoke!  And I do not think I am alone.

w.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Wayne Price 
  To: Art Deco 
  Cc: Vision 2020 
  Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 11:47 AM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Alcohol called most dangerous intoxicant


  Oh Wayne!


  Now that you posted that article, some of the do-gooders on city council will want to ban alcohol from the bars in the city so we can be the first (and only) "Alcohol-free" city in Idaho,
  just like we are with the smoking ban!  BUT, you'll be able to drink out on the sidewalk, 20 feet  from the door of the bar!   Amazing that the city that brought up the idea of a smoking ban in
  bars (Eagle Idaho) DEFEATED the idea when it came up for a city council vote down there! 


  Wayne P.




















  On Nov 1, 2010, at 10:00 AM, Art Deco wrote:


    FYI

    Wayne A. Fox
    1009 Karen Lane
    PO Box 9421
    Moscow, ID  83843

    waf at moscow.com
    208 882-7975

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    November 1, 2010
    Alcohol called most dangerous intoxicant
    Study finds more damage than from cocaine, heroin
    Maria Cheng
    Associated Press

    LONDON – Alcohol is more dangerous than illegal drugs like heroin and crack cocaine, according to a new study.

    British experts evaluated substances including alcohol, cocaine, heroin, Ecstasy and marijuana, ranking them based on how destructive they are to the individual who takes them and to society as a whole.

    Researchers analyzed how addictive a drug is and how it harms the human body, in addition to other criteria like environmental damage caused by the drug, its role in breaking up families and its economic costs, such as health care, social services, and prison.

    Heroin, crack cocaine and methamphetamine, or crystal meth, were the most lethal to individuals. When considering their wider social effects, alcohol, heroin and crack cocaine were the deadliest. But overall, alcohol outranked all other substances, followed by heroin and crack cocaine. Marijuana, ecstasy and LSD scored far lower.

    The study was paid for by Britain’s Centre for Crime and Justice Studies and was published online today in the medical journal, Lancet.

    Experts said alcohol scored so high because it is so widely used and has devastating consequences not only for drinkers but for those around them.

    “Just think about what happens (with alcohol) at every football game,” said Wim van den Brink, a professor of psychiatry and addiction at the University of Amsterdam. He was not linked to the study and co-authored a commentary in the Lancet.

    When drunk in excess, alcohol damages nearly all organ systems. It is also connected to higher death rates and is involved in a greater percentage of crime than most other drugs, including heroin.

    But experts said it would be impractical and incorrect to outlaw alcohol.

    “We cannot return to the days of prohibition,” said Leslie King, an adviser to the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and one of the study’s authors. “Alcohol is too embedded in our culture and it won’t go away.”


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