The country's most harmful drug overall, according to a new study, may "surprise some" as it's widely used and legal, the authors say.

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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  • Dalinar@lemmy.nzEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Alcohol is extremely harmful and a large amount of the harm for drugs is being caught with the drugs.

    Good job.

      • Qualanqui@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I was wondering why cannabis was so high but this makes sense, it’s not the ill effects the plant has (which should put it down with nitrous and hallucinogens) but what the state will do to you for possessing the plant that causes the most harm, which is a pretty clear statement that our policy settings are way off.

  • evanuggetpi@lemmy.nzEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.