Tuesday 5 February 2008

Horizon: Is Alcohol worse than Ecstasy?

I had to nip to the loo (two cans of lager and Horizon's on the BBC, so no ad-breaks) and pop upstairs (to get another half ounce of Old Holborn and some more Rizlas), so I missed the statistics on cocaine users and deaths therefrom*, but I'm still surprised that they put in Heroin** at number 1. If I scribbled it down correctly, they said 300,000 users, and despite the fact that these poor people are peddled the worst adulterated filth, nowhere near proper pure medicinal heroin, it only causes 700 deaths a year. That's one-in-four-hundred users.

As opposed to Heroin-substitute Methadone*** at number 4 with 33,000 users and 295 deaths, and apparently it doesn't even give you a buzz. And it's a pissy green colour.


* Did this include crack-cocaine? Now that's nasty stuff, that is.
** TM Bayer AG, ca. 1897
*** TM Hoechst AG, ca. 1938

Update: full list here.

4 comments:

Scott Freeman said...

I've got a pact with some friends to do heroin before we're 30. Just to prove it's no big deal and that everyone who gets hooked is a panzy. This is definitely a good idea. There's no way this isn't a good idea.

Mark Wadsworth said...

If you just do it once or twice there's no danger of getting hooked, apparently.

Scott Freeman said...

Hmm, well we wouldn't want people saying we didn't do it 'properly'. I shall have to look into a re-pact, perhaps for a week of use before we're 30 and then kicking it in a day. That'll show 'em.

A friend of mine actually attempted to use an imaginary heroin addiction ("I just need someone to talk to..." to chat up a girl. It didn't work, but it did make us laugh ;)

Henry North London 2.0 said...

http://nhsexposedblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/gmc-regime-and-chinese-communist.html