006: Alcohol is the most dangerous drug in the world
Recovery Elevator
Paul
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🗓️ 30 March 2015
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Alcohol is the most dangerous drug in the world and you probably don’t even realize it.
David Nutt, psychiatrist at imperial college in the UK and former Chairman of the UK advisory council on drugs.
- Kills 3 million people worldwide
- Was fired for suggesting alcohol was most dangerous drug
- In the USA alcohol is responsible for 1/3 of all traffic fatalities
- With homicides ½ were intoxicated and 2/3 of domestic violence victims
- You’re likely to be a victim is doubled as well
Harm score from
- Measures drugs on a score of 16 (9 measure harm to individual user and 7 measure societal factors)
- Heroine, crack, and Meth are more dangerous when only individual factors, but even so, alcohol is the 4th.
- Tobacco is the 7th most harmful drug. 9/10 people can handle alcohol, but 0/10 people can smoke. QUIT SMOKING NOW
- Important to not confuse legality with dangerousness. The reasons some drugs are legal are mainly cultural and political.
- Marijuana is the gateway drug? Nope. It’s alcohol and even more dangerous than ecstasy and LSD
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Recovery Elevator, episode six. |
| 0:02.6 | I was kind of a lone ranger, like drinking alone a lot towards the end. |
| 0:08.2 | Welcome to the Recovery Elevator. My name is Paul and at the time of this recording I have |
| 0:15.5 | 197 days sobriety. According to my Recovery Elevator sobriety tracker tracker |
| 0:21.3 | available on Android and the iPhone. Today I'm going to talk to you |
| 0:26.4 | about why alcohol is the most dangerous drug in the world and why you probably haven't even realized it. |
| 0:34.0 | Before I get in about how alcohol is the most dangerous drug in the world, |
| 0:37.0 | I'm first going to talk about why you probably don't even see it coming and don't realize that it's already happening. |
| 0:43.0 | Let's switch gears for a second and talk about farm machinery, pun intended. |
| 0:47.0 | In Montana, there are a lot of farms and ranches. |
| 0:50.0 | And let's get real. |
| 0:51.0 | I can't personally talk with experience. I'm allergic to horses in fact extremely allergic horses and alcohol |
| 0:57.4 | I've done a lot of drunk driving, but it's probably a good thing that I've never done drunk horseback riding because actually horses |
| 1:04.0 | are in the top 10 most dangerous animals in the entire world. |
| 1:07.0 | I probably would have fallen off many horses drunk riding. |
| 1:10.0 | Anyways, back to the topic. |
| 1:12.0 | I have, however, been inside of a tractor and I notice there are three speeds |
| 1:16.4 | and I'm going to use these three speeds in an analogy to tell you why alcohol is the most |
| 1:21.4 | dangerous drug in the world but you don't even know it. |
| 1:23.2 | There are three speeds turtle, hair, and a cheetah. Let's go to cheetah. |
| 1:28.0 | Drugs that fall in the cheetah category are like meth, heroin, and crack. |
| 1:32.3 | You can see the wheels come off quickly. are like meth, heroin, and crack. |
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