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user-inactivated · 3233 days ago · link · · parent · post: Imagine if the media covered alcohol like other drugs
Does that only measure direct harm, such as hitting your wife in a drunken rage, or does it measure indirect harm as well? Does becoming a financial burden to your family members/the healthcare system or inadvertently spreading blood borne diseases through sharing dirty needles or broken crack pipes count as harm? What about people who steal to support their habits? I ask because there is a huge distinction. Where I live, there is a huge issue with heroin, meth, and crack cocaine and the problems these drugs are causing is widespread and terrifyingly palpable. Not a criticism of you tauta_krypta or a defense of alcohol use, but a serious inquiry into what that graph actually illustrates.