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My statement in October 1 Nutt D Estimating drug harms: a risk busines. http://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/opus1714/Estimating_drug_harms.pdfDate: October, 2009 Google Scholar that alcohol was more dangerous than many illegal drugs, including cannabis, ecstasy, and LSD, referred back to a paper I published in The Lancet 2 years ago. 2 Nutt DJ King LA Saulsbury W Blakemore C Developing a rational scale for assessing the risks of drugs of potential misuse. Lancet. 2007; 369: 1047-1053 Summary Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (800) Google Scholar It would be an understatement, given the political, media, and academic interest, to say that I stirred up a hornets' nest in the UK Parliament and elsewhere. The Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, sacked me from my role as chair of the ACMD (the government's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, on which I had served with distinction for 10 years), and the Conservative shadow minister said it should have happened earlier this year when I published a paper comparing the harms of ecstasy and another addiction (which I had termed “equasy”—ie, horse riding). 3 Nutt DJ Equasy—an overlooked addiction with implications for the current debate on drug harms. J Psychopharmacol. 2009; 23: 3-5 Crossref PubMed Scopus (61) Google Scholar
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