{"id":1862,"date":"2013-10-21T10:44:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T10:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=1862"},"modified":"2013-10-21T10:49:31","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T10:49:31","slug":"how-dangerous-are-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/how-dangerous-are-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"How dangerous are drugs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736%2810%2961462-6\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> published by the <em>Lancet<\/em> on November 1st ranks 20 drugs (legal and illegal) on 16 measures of harm to the user and to wider society, such as damage to health, drug dependency, economic costs and crime.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/dailychart\/2010\/11\/drugs_cause_most_harm\">The Economist presents a useful graphic of the results<\/a>.\u00a0 Interestingly alcohol is at the top.\u00a0 Maybe all drugs should be legal for purchase by adults &#8211; it would save a lot of resources wasted on prohibition.\u00a0 It would also be interesting to see where some other foods come in, like sugar which has measurably increased obesity and caffeine which is now a go to accompaniment to alcohol in younger adults.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/dailychart\/2010\/11\/drugs_cause_most_harm\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1863\" alt=\"scoringdrugs20101106\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/astraea.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/scoringdrugs20101106.gif?resize=595%2C513\" width=\"595\" height=\"513\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study published by the Lancet on November 1st ranks 20 drugs (legal and illegal) on 16 measures of harm to the user and to wider society, such as damage to health, drug dependency, economic costs and crime. The Economist presents a useful graphic of the results.\u00a0 Interestingly alcohol is at the top.\u00a0 Maybe &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/how-dangerous-are-drugs\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How dangerous are drugs?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-u2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1864,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions\/1864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}