The country's most harmful drug overall, according to a new study, may "surprise some" as it's widely used and legal, the authors say.

The results of a new Otago University study comparing the harm caused by different drugs have been released. Here’s the breakdown by drug:

This is the original paper in the Journal of Psychopharmacology: The New Zealand drug harms ranking study: A multi-criteria decision analysis

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  • sylverstreamEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I was in a similar boat. I thought I couldn’t stop. But I’ve quit 5 years ago and it is awesome. There’s a stopdrinking community at lemmy.world if you want to chat. Or, /r/stopdrinking is great.