The 20 Most Dangerous Drugs
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A team of leading scientists have spent two years analysing the effects of 20 of Britain’s most widely used drugs, and have devised a scientifically rigorous – and controversial – new ranking for them.
The BBC’s Horizon programme has followed their research and looks at the science behind the headlines.
How do the brain and body react to each stimulant as it passes into the bloodstream, and what are the long-term effects of drugs relative to their classification?
If the current classification should be changed in view of the latest findings, what exactly is Britain’s most dangerous drug?
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June 25th, 2009 at 08:18
Please check out my LSD Documentary POWER AND CONTROL: LSD IN THE 60″S
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July 3rd, 2009 at 00:07
4/5
bbc documentary that hurries through britains top 20 drugs.
popularized, shallow entertainment for the average.
as the title doesn’t let anyone expect much of an interesting insight,
the documentary fulfills it’s duty.
you get to see “statistics” of the substances such as deaths per year, user numbers and prices, but never the big picture.
you don’t get to see molecular processes, studies, using techniques or trip-stories as they are only shown irregularly throughout the documentary.
- 1 pt. for not showing and explaining each drug equally.
July 12th, 2009 at 22:29
their top 20 is flawed, there is no way cannabis is more harmful than huffing solvents or ingesting GHB. Street E is often mixed with amphetamines and fillers and who knows what (doesn’t mean it’s deadly, or even very harmful if taken occasionally in reasonable doses, but it’s more harmful than pure MDMA and accurate dosage is difficult). As X said, it’s more based on plain statistics and a handful of expert opinions than real science or users accounts and knowledge.
August 29th, 2009 at 02:55
The creators of this documentary have obviously never experienced a drug induced state. Laughable.
September 23rd, 2009 at 13:33
I agree extremely rushed. My biggest concern was that amphetamines like crystal meth wasn’t higher up on the list.
November 26th, 2009 at 08:51
LSD is bad shit man, Just look at the terror on that womens face! Forget that shit man. They never covered “bad trips” etc. Oh man forget about those!!!!!!!!!!
If I was goining to therapy the last thing Id want is to be tripping….
December 18th, 2009 at 05:17
meh, it could have been worse like, LSD isnt so bad in comparison to a lot of other shit tho.. Weed tho shouldnt have even been on the list
December 18th, 2009 at 08:17
marijuana is illegal cause big pharma can’t put a patent on it.
January 1st, 2010 at 16:49
Another fact on marijuana is the Seed is One of The Most Nutritious Substances scientifically known to Man. In my opinion “Quit smokin that shit! Your fryin your brain with all the NEUROTOXINS in the fertilizers Dude!” Leave that work for the MERCURY in the Vaccines and the FLOURIDE in toothpaste and water.
“Unh K!”
January 7th, 2010 at 05:31
I think presenting the drugs was kind of subjective.I can agree that drugs which are tolerated have become pretty dangerous but I can never agree that smoking marijuana or cannabis(by the way I never was psychotic by smoking this and even if I would have been I can’t consider this classifies you for schizophrenia, it’s all exaggerated) is that bad while the enormous amount of drugs that are used pharmaceutically are covered up.
For example in cannabis I had to listen for ten minutes how harmful it is while in some pharmaceutical ones it barely says anything.Maybe the state should rethink again who’s to blame for being addicted because I think there are far many people dying in mental hospitals because of so called good purpose drugs than smoking crack for a good mood.
I would’ve expected more scientifically based opinions or at least more comment for people who tried all those stuff and they know which is the most lethal.By the way nobody commented on experiencing pharmaceutical drugs.It’s COVER UP!!!
February 5th, 2010 at 04:16
wtf are they talking about putting cannabis at number 11? cannabis have never killed anyone. in fact it takes 40,000 times what is considered 1 hit of marijuana to overdose, making it the lease harmful drug in the world. khat being placed at number 20 is complete b*******, khat is almost as bad as coccaine, it was used by somalians in what was called “Black Hawk Down” not the movie, but what happened in real life when the US special forces tried to take down Aidid, but failed, because teh somalians were fearless, and agressive because of the drug.
it made them extremely aggresive, and played a huge part of the somali victory. marijuana has been scientifically proven to not increase the chance of lung cancer, and also has been proven to not cause any brain damage, unless you smoke it or eat it in large amounts, daily. caffeine has been scientifically proven to be more dangerous than cannabis. ecstacy is a date-rape drug, it is commonly used in raping people and they place it at number 18? they must have been tested too much drugs by the time they finished this list.