Ranking the Health Hazards of
Drugs
The 5 commonly abused drugs are:
alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, cocaine and heroin. I would like to add
methamphetamine to that list since it has recently become recognized as a
significant problem. If you had to compare the direct health hazards of these
six substances, how would you rank them in order of dangerousness and why? Some
would say that the harm from drugs can not be reduced merely to the respective
number of deaths. You may wish to make a second rank ordering of the
psychosocial hazards of these 6 substances as well.
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