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Originally Posted by slapass
If 100 people used cocaine on a regular basis for 10 years and 100 people were to use alcohol do you think the addiction rates would be the same? I disagree that alcohol is worse then most street drugs. It might cultural in that we except the affects of prolonged alcohol use but it seems to be less disruptive.
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I think the alcohol would be far greater in that test.
Hell, up until the last few years doctors said that cocaine isn't addictive...just "psychologically" addictive (talking about real cocaine, not crack or other manmade stuff).
Alcoholism is huge. And it kills so many people every year. You can even disregard all the traffic accidents, murders, accidental deaths (from being drunk and fucking up)...and it would still kill more people than coke and heroin combined just from liver and other organ failures.
Most anything is okay to do in MODERATION. Like most folks I've drank all my life since I was 16. Did blow for the first time when I was 19.
And like 99.9% of people I don't have a physiology that is predisposed to addiction. I don't need to drink or do any kind of drug. The only time I have a drink is at a club in a social setting. Same for any kind of drug. It's just for partying on a Friday night.
But the folks who are genetically screwed towards addiction? Those are the ones who drink at home...even when they are alone.
Which is why prescription pills are the absolute worst. I've seen those things take out a lot of people. They get the prescription from the doctor, fill it at the drug store, and take them eveyday.
This is from 2007 (it's MUCH worse now):
"An analysis of 168,900 autopsies conducted in Florida in 2007 found that three times as many people were killed by legal drugs as by cocaine, heroin and all methamphetamines put together. According to state law enforcement officials, this is a sign of a burgeoning prescription drug abuse problem.
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/024765_drug_drugs_DEA.html#ixzz2Sdpm1wSC"