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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  • 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.