Alcohol: It’s worse than heroin
Croft Woodruff
Alcohol: It’s worse than heroin
Half of all traffic fatalities are alcohol related. Alcohol use is associated with 69 % of drownings and has been found to be involved with 70 % of all deaths and 63% of injuries for falls. Alcohol is a significant factor in eh battered child syndrome.
“Alcohol use is our costliest and most widespread drug problem,” reports Richard W. Wilsnack of the University Of North Dakota School Of Medicine.
According to the Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs, the amount of harm done to the human body by nicotine and alcohol vastly exceeds the physical harm done by all of the other psychoactive drugs put together. A major error of the current drug classification system is that it treats alcohol and nicotine – the most harmful drugs by far – essentially as non-drugs.
Vancouver city council’s decision to change the bylaws to allow more pub and liquor outlets in the suburbs in order to guarantee alcohol users and abusers greater access to their “injection sites” is hypocritical in the extreme - especially considering that, physiologically, alcohol is at least 1,000 times more harmful than heroin. Why can’t the so-called illicit drug users purchase their drugs of choice and do them in the privacy of their own homes if that is their desire? That would at least get them of the streets.
Legislated morality never worked during the prohibition years in theUnited States and it is not working with illicit drugs. It would not help alcohol and tobacco addicts if they were disgraced, fired from their jobs and declared enemies of the state, as is the case with illicit users.
~ CW
This was published in the letters to the editor page of the National Post in June 2006
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Croft Woodruff PhD (Honoris Causa)
MEMBRE HONORAIRE COLLÈGE DES NATUROPATHES DU QUÉBEC
“For the past fifty years I have been demonstrating that the use of natural nutritional treatment is and must be the most effective form of medicine and that when it is not usedand the profession depends soley on the use of toxic drugs the results are abysmal."
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