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The Australian drug harms ranking study

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Overall, alcohol was the most harmful drug when harm to users and harm to others was combined, followed by cigarettes, crystal methamphetamine, cannabis, heroin and pharmaceutical opioids.
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Background/Aim:The aim of the current study was to review drug harms as they occur in Australia using the Multi-criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) methodology adopted in earlier studies in other jur...

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Adverse effects of psychedelics: From anecdotes and misinformation to systematic science

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Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

Max Griswold, +518 more
- 22 Sep 2018 - 
TL;DR: It is found that the risk of all-cause mortality, and of cancers specifically, rises with increasing levels of consumption, and the level of consumption that minimises health loss is zero.
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Drug harms in the UK: a multicriteria decision analysis.

TL;DR: Improved scoring and weighting approach of MCDA increases the differentiation between the most and least harmful drugs, however, the findings correlate poorly with present UK drug classification, which is not based simply on considerations of harm.
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Comparative epidemiology of dependence on tobacco, alcohol, controlled substances, and inhalants: Basic findings from the National Comorbidity Survey.

TL;DR: Basic descriptive findings from new research on the epidemiology of drug dependence syndromes are reported, conducted as part of the National Comorbidity Survey (NCS).
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Drinking to death: the changing face of liver disease

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