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Are we equating alcohol with heroin?
by ryanmarsh 6y ago
Are we equating alcohol with heroin?
- mdoms 6y agoThe article does this numerous times.
- GordonS 6y agoI read TFA, and didn't see any such mention. I've gone back to it with the search tool, and still don't see any such thing. Would you mind pointing to where these numerous points are please?
- mdoms 6y agoReally, dude? > Hart reports that more than 70 percent of drug users—whether they use alcohol, cocaine, prescription medications, or heroin—do not meet the health criteria for drug addiction > “My heroin use is as rational as my alcohol use,” Carl Hart writes > Let’s just talk about alcohol first. When you’re at a wedding reception, alcohol serves as a social lubricant. People are more gregarious. They talk, they interact. The same is true with cocaine at parties, heroin among friends, or opium among friends, NDMA among lovers. > It’s just like with alcohol. Most people drink alcohol on a regular basis, but they don’t become physically dependent > I don’t know a term. I simply mean people who take drugs, like alcohol users, somebody who may have a glass of wine or two every night for dinner, whereas somebody else may only drink on the weekend. It’s a wide range. And the same can be true with cocaine or heroin > Why do you use heroin? > That’s like saying, “Why do you use alcohol?”
- GordonS 6y agoHe doesn't suggest using heroin at work in any one of those quotes.
- Toutouxc 6y agoShouldn't we? Alcohol ruins more lives and causes more injuries and damage than heroin.
- biolurker1 6y agoJust because it's used by a vast number of people. Getting rational, for every 100 alcohol and 100 heroin users who do you think is in better health shape?
- GordonS 6y agoBut how much of that is not because of the actual drug itself, but rather because the drug is illegal?
- GordonS 6y agoMy point is the opposite, that from a social perspective, "just" alcohol is a serious no-no during work, especially if working with machinery etc. Although realistically, alcohol is probably one of the worst from a work safety perspective.