Personally I'd think alcohol destroys more lives than heroin does. Herion just attracts more negative media attention and has a bad stigma attached to it.
I'm not so sure i agree with this, Fry-d- , but rather than get all opinionated about it let's try to be objective and logical... heroin is used by 1 and a half, or 2 percent of the population, according to various statistics. two years ago in victoria the "heroin toll" stood at almost 400 people a year. so out of, say, 1 and a half percent of victorians (they reckon h use is declining) - 40,000 approx. users, 400 of those died in 2000 alone. so that's like, heroin users have a one percent chance of dying on any given year. apply those stats to alcohol (and i read somewhere that only 25 percent of victorians don't drink, it could have been less) and you've got about 3 million drinkers in vic, which means to have a 1% annual user DEATH ratio you'd be seeing a whopping 30,000 people DYING of directly alcohol-related deaths each year (or on a bad year, anyway). and that doesn't count drink driving. that's ALCOHOL OVERDOSES. so, i'd probably have to say PER 100 users (or whatever) heroin would have a much higher life fuck-up ratio than alcohol. in my book, that corresponds to heroin being more "evil" than other drugs. but fuck it eh, i mean all drugs are evil to some extent, based on their POTENTIAL FOR ABUSE. such a fucking rant, i dunno if i even make sense here, but i felt like arguing, and i ain't done math since school
