• Gigan@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      There are lots of drugs worse than alcohol. Meth, fentanyl, or heroine for example.

      Alcohol is worse than marijuana though.

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        6 months ago

        Worse is a subjective term. Alcohol causes more deaths per year (140,000+) than all other drug overdose deaths combined (~103,000). Alcohol also has significant long term health impact for even light users. I think what’s truly the worst is how normalized alcohol use and abuse is in American society.

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        6 months ago

        Fun fact: withdrawal from alcohol can and frequently does kill people.

        Withdrawal from meth doesn’t kill people and it’s uncommon for people to die from opiate withdrawal.

        Alcohol is a horrible drug.

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        True. And I don’t get Fentanyl at all, I mean I don’t do drugs myself and I really never wanted them but - c’mon people, Fentanyl? You’d be better off ingesting rat poison. Why would anyone deliberately take such a thing.

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      6 months ago

      What’s really bad about alcohol is, people who abuse it don’t think it IS a drug. And they don’t see it as having any negative effects until it’s already created and addictive pattern and need for it.