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That paper is great! Why can't more public policy be based on sensible metrics like this? (http://web.mit.edu/mariya/Public/Exploring%20Pharmacology%2008/addic
by youngian 17y ago
That paper is great! Why can't more public policy be based on sensible metrics like this?
(http://web.mit.edu/mariya/Public/Exploring%20Pharmacology%2008/addiction/Development%20of%20a%20rational%20scale%20to%20asses%20the%20harm%20of%20drugs.pdf http://web.mit.edu/mariya/Public/Exploring%20Pharmacology%20...)
- coyul 17y agoTalking publicly about that paper is why David Nutt was fired last year from his post as technical chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs in the UK. I suspect that's the answer to your question, sadly... Here's a recent interview with him: http://news.google.ca/news/url?sa=t&ct2=ca%2F0_0_s_0_0_t&usg=AFQjCNFLAGET7TM0W6lz77lexfJjIMzBXQ&cid=17593692963640&ei=SpRPS-iDK4uwMtD-yckC&rt=SEARCH&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.metro.co.uk%2Fnews%2F808938-david-nutt-alcohol-is-worse-than-drugs http://news.google.ca/news/url?sa=t&ct2=ca%2F0_0_s_0_0_t...