What is the most dangerous drug? [Spoiler: it's alcohol!]

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[–]jet199 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

In think the trouble you have is that while anyone can get a chemical addiction to heroine or crack very quickly most non-alcoholic drinkers are never going to become alcoholics and can't imagine being so.

Unlike other addictive drugs alcohol makes you feel very ill one way or another long before you get dangerously poisoned. You have to push yourself through months and years of hugging the toilet bowl before you get to addiction. That shows real commitment of the addict to oblivion not so much the power of the drug.

I literally cannot image being addicted to alcohol, it offers nothing worth the negative effects of being dependant for me. But then I never get blackout drunk, I remember every second, so I know I've got to deal with what I've done the morning after.

I believe memory blackouts while drinking is linked quite strongly to child abuse or other trauma in a person's past, maybe that's the real issue which needs addressing and will prevent alcohol being so damaging.

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In think the trouble you have is that while anyone can get a chemical addiction to heroine or crack very quickly most non-alcoholic drinkers are never going to become alcoholics and can't imagine being so.

Ironically, the fact that it's harder to get addicted makes people drink more. They can quit any time, but they choose not to — it's pure stupidity!

You have to push yourself through months and years of hugging the toilet bowl before you get to addiction. That shows real commitment of the addict to oblivion not so much the power of the drug.

Most people who drink do it to try and cope with stuff. It's quite exploitative how these folks need help, but people sell them literal poison instead — how do they sleep at night knowing they ruin lives, knowing they kill people?

I literally cannot image being addicted to alcohol, it offers nothing worth the negative effects of being dependant for me.

A lot of people in my family are alcoholics, so I always knew to stay away from that crap. My uncle is going to prison for stealing a truck while drunk, and my mom's cousin nearly killed herself drunk driving.

I believe memory blackouts while drinking is linked quite strongly to child abuse or other trauma in a person's past

Any sources to back that up? I never heard that assertion before and would be interested in reading up on it. I feel like most people who claim to be blackout drunk are just trying to avoid the consequences of their actions, like my mom's cousin (I think she thought they wouldn't take her license away if she said that, which obviously didn't work).