Short transcript of a YouTube discussion (two speakers) arguing that alcohol is the most harmful drug in Europe due to its availability and societal damage. The exchange notes that alcohol’s legal and widespread availability affects comparisons with illegal drugs and states that alcohol is the fourth leading cause of death in Britain.
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In Europe, alcohol is the most harmful drug because of the widespread use and the damage it does to society.
And you compare this to a lot of other drugs? Yeah. How do you think the study was affected by the fact that alcohol is available everywhere, you know, and the other drugs are illegal, but they are kind of available in a black market.
Now, that's a hugely important question.
Obviously, alcohol.
Is the most harmful drug because it is available. But the fundamental question we were asking, what is the best way of dealing with the harms of drugs? Now, to answer that question, firstly, you've got to work out the harms of drugs, which we have done, and now the question is how best to deal with the harms of alcohol because it's the most harmful drug. Now, there are people who say, well, we don't care about alcohol because we all like it, we all enjoy it, we don't want to call it a drug and we'll just carry on as we are.
Now, that's.
Fine, as long as you know the truth. Alcohol is the fourth leading cause of death in Britain today.