10 Reasons Alcohol is the Most Dangerous of All Drugs

Last Updated on January 7, 2021

Each year, 4,300 American teenagers die from drinking alcohol. According to pressure groups and nonprofits, the number of these annual deaths is more than the yearly deaths caused by all illegal drugs combined.

Basically, it’s a horrible epidemic, so if you somehow thought this number of deaths is tiny while ignoring the annual teen lost lives, then something must be wrong.

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5- Media Bias against Other Drugs is Unbelievable

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Since the 90s, it’s been crystal clear that media’s response to alcohol and drug stories is more biased and less dangerous. Following 2,255 drug-related deaths in Scotland between 1990 and 1999, Alasdair J.M. Forsyth compared all Scottish news reports out of curiosity to see how the media reported these deaths. The result was that the bias was really profound.

Only 1 in 72 deaths from morphine got coverage, 1 in every 5 deaths from heroin was reported, and so was 1 of every 8 deaths from cocaine. But the huge imbalance was that almost every one of the 28 ecstasy-related deaths was covered by media during this period!
Meanwhile, just 1 in 256 aspirin-related deaths was reported.

In the same period of time, there were 2,000 alcohol-related deaths, which is more than 70 times the number of people killed by ecstasy. These deaths from alcohol have never been seriously reported as a fatal menace.

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4- Many of Alcohol Alternatives are Safer

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Heroin, crystal meth, BGH, and crack can all ruin your life and cause horrible health problems, but so can alcohol. The problem is that alcohol is given a free pass in our societies. For example, although cannabis can have damaging health effects and may be associated with a risk of mental illness, it is still much safer for you than drinking alcohol.

The research carried by David Nutt highlights that the risk of cannabis to users is less than half of that of alcohol. Also, there has never been a single verified case of a marijuana overdose (you’d need to smoke about 700 kg in 15 min to be at risk of death).