Alcohol more harmful than Heroin

[RichardCranium]

I've always found heroin to be a bit like fererro rocher.......it's just so moreish

chav's truffles

[BlasterBates]

I agree, but I wouldn't say Keith Richards hasn't been harmed.

I'm not sure a 70 year old who can still play guitar, give a great rock concert, write songs and write a biography (admittedly with the help of a ghost writer) is particularly "harmed".

But yes he does sound bad sometimes. I remember a longtime ago Keith Richards being held up as the example as what drugs do to you, but he still kept going. I put it down to the fact that he drinks a bottle of Jack Daniels before his interviews and then he sounds slurred, and you assume he's always like that. Saw him in that film when he was organising Chuck Berry's 60th birthday concert, he was much sharper than he appears in the interviews.

[xoggoth]

Nothing wrong with the conclusion that alcohol causes more harm overall due to its prevalent use but some will incorrectly think it is an argument to legalise other drugs.

If they became legal, and presumably became as widely used, some would cause far more harm. If a far larger percentage of the population used LSD, skunk cannabis or ectasy our hospitals would be full of schizophrenics and depressives. Commonplace use of cocaine or heroin would take away any sense of purpose from those who have any. Look at what widespread use of one of the mildest of drugs, Khat, is doing to Yemen.

[shaunbhoy]

If a far larger percentage of the population used LSD, skunk cannabis or ectasy our hospitals would be full of schizophrenics and depressives

As opposed to the House of Commons you mean?

[kandr]

As opposed to CUK you mean?

FTFY

[kandr]

I'm not sure a 70 year old who can still play guitar, give a great rock concert, write songs and write a biography (admittedly with the help of a ghost writer) is particularly "harmed".

But yes he does sound bad sometimes. I remember a longtime ago Keith Richards being held up as the example as what drugs do to you, but he still kept going. I put it down to the fact that he drinks a bottle of Jack Daniels before his interviews and then he sounds slurred, and you assume he's always like that. Saw him in that film when he was organising Chuck Berry's 60th birthday concert, he was much sharper than he appears in the interviews.

Ive only seen a few interviews, so perhaps you are right, nothing like a bottle of JD for the nerves.

[Mich the Tester]

BBC News - Alcohol 'more harmful than heroin' says Prof David Nutt

Thoughts?

So what's your chosen drug?

[kandr]

So what's your chosen drug?

Sniffing Petrol

[BlasterBates]

Ive only seen a few interviews, so perhaps you are right, nothing like a bottle of JD for the nerves.

Of course in most of those recorded interviews he would have been full of "smack".

[d000hg]

chav's truffles

Is that a euphemism?