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Dangerous Drugs: They are sold in our pharmacies, not on our street corners

06 November 2011 7:17 PM

More people die from taking painkillers than from taking heroin. This does not mean that heroin is safe. It means that painkillers are dangerous and a lot more people take them than take heroin. There is a problem - as Gordon Brown found out when looking at re-classifying the level of danger from using Cannabis - with talking about the dangers of drugs.

In terms of risk of death, the three most dangerous 'drugs' in our society are all legal. In the UK, nicotine kills three hundred people a day, sugar kills two hundred people a day and alcohol kills one hundred people a day. All the illegal drugs together kill fewer than fifty people a day. This does not mean that they are safe. It means that fewer people take them. If all the people who drink or smoke were to use heroin, there would be considerably more deaths from heroin.
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http://lefeverblog.dailymail.co.uk/...our-pharmacys-not-on-our-street-corners-.html
 
I saw 'Daily Mail' and prepared myself for some BS, but this is a surprisingly enlightened article for them.

Feste - i'd say refined sugar counts as a drug (barely, though), since I know there have been studies showing that it causes similar impulsive, 'addicting' use, + it can cause some psychoactive properties, sugar rush etc.
 
The Classification on what exactly constitutes as a drug are pretty hazy. There are a lot of things out there that can be addicting to people more than actual drugs. Video games and sugar come to mind
 
Fyasko. said:
nott really,
thats like saying Marijuana is a drug, so parsley and basil are too...
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Define what a drug is, in a general way, and dependong on how you do it, I can either exclude some illegal drugs from your definition, or include some common "non-drug" substances.

What the word actually means and the way it is used in society vary vastly depending on who is saying it.
 
scureto1 said:
What the word actually means and the way it is used in society vary vastly depending on who is saying it.
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Even worse, in Quebec, 99,9% of the population think that the word "drug" (it's French translation : "drogue") only means "illegal drugs" and that pharmaceuticals are "medication", not drugs.
We don't even have a term for "drugstore", we only use "pharmacy". So the English-speaking countries are more accurate than us in the usage of the word.
 
Dangerous drugs: They're sold in our supermarkets, news agents, pubs, clubs, off licenses and MISINFORMATION
 
Zapa said:
Even worse, in Quebec, 99,9% of the population think that the word "drug" (it's French translation : "drogue") only means "illegal drugs" and that pharmaceuticals are "medication", not drugs.
We don't even have a term for "drugstore", we only use "pharmacy". So the English-speaking countries are more accurate than us in the usage of the word.
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We dont call them drug stores here in the UK either.. it's just pharmacies and chemists.
 
Dont forget food and air! name one person whos not dangerously addicted to air, food and water! Name one! lol the only sensible answer is zombies!
 
It's not a question of addiction, this girl died from an overdose of water (hyponatremia) after she took some ecstasy.
 
^ Exactly.. misinformation and illinformed people = death.. If everyone knew everythin needed to know.. she wouldn't have drank so much water she died / someone she was with would have stopped her..
 
Methadone is prescribed as an alternative to heroin. It is given as a liquid so that it is swallowed rather than injected. This reduces the risk of transferring HIV via dirty needles.
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Because everyone knows that you can't inject liquid. 8(

Except that it doesn't do so to any significant extent. It is estimated that fifty percent of people taking Methadone also take daily - daily - heroin and many of the rest also use it occasionally.
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"estimated" = "we are totally making this shit up"
 
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