Alcoholic Now Worse Than Drugs - British Government Top Committee

A research carried out by top Government scientists have clearly shown that alcohol and cigarettes are more dangerous than several class A drugs. Analysis carried by some leading British Government top advisory committee on drugs the experts noted with concern that alcohol and tobacco are more dangerous in their views than drugs such as cannabis classified as drug C and Ecstasy which is a class A Drug. 

The members of the drugs classification have therefore called on the government to review the 40-year old policy replacing it with a more honest one which reflects the harm caused by alcohol and tobacco. In the view of the leading experts the policy of categorising drugs A,B and C is arbitrary and not based on evidence and should therefore be scrapped in favour of a system that accurately represents the drugs and their side-effects. 

While heroine and cocaine both class A drugs topped the table among the 20 different drugs classified by the experts and numbered serially, alcohol ranked 5th most dangerous substance. At the same time the scientists have downgraded cannabis formerly grade B to C drug as the 11th most harmful drug among the twenty reclassified drugs. Though the experts are not calling for the banning of alcohol or cigarettes yet if the ABC policy on the classification is to be maintained noted the scientists alcohol is to be rated as class A drug while tobacco will be class B they noted. 

One of the experts Colin Blakemore the Chief Executive of the Medical Research Council who is the author of the report published in the Medical journal Lancet said the policies we had in the last forty years have not worked in terms of reducing the drugs use he noted .He therefore called for a thorough review of the whole policy which he said is the object of their study “to bring a dispassionate approach to a very passionate issue”. 

Contributing to the debate Professor David Nutt of the Bristol University said the point they were making was to show that all drugs are dangerous, including “the ones people know and love and use regularly like alcohol”.

According to the scientists the harms caused by alcohol are much worse than those caused by so many drugs. Professor Nutt and his team analysed the evidence of harm caused by all the 20 drugs and substances including heroine cocaine and cannabis. He also defended the position of ecstasy mainly taken by young people which came near the bottom of the table with assertion that the drug is relatively safe compares with alcohol. 

He said despite the fact that nearly half a million youngsters do take the drug every week-end it causes no fewer than ten deaths a year while according to him one person is killed daily by acute alcohol poisoning and thousands more from chronic use. 

The new findings about the evil effect of the alcohol ranked as number five among the twenty most dangerous drugs and other related addictive substances were published in the British Press. The question people would be asking is whether the authorities have the courage to change the policy of reclassifying alcohol as dangerous like all dangerous drugs and other substances taken by addicts. Doing so demands courage seen by many as courageous stance against alcohol addicted and loved by many people in the society which is not easy to be given up by many. 

Although it is said if there is a will there is a way yet people seemed to be saying they cannot survive without their usual habitual drink. The irony or rather dilemma meant clinging to this useless alcoholic drinking binge culturally acceptable is causing a lot of concern not only to the authorities but the people in general. 

Despite strenuous effort by the Society the people have no will or real courage to give up this evil habit forbidden over 1400 years in Islam yet to be forbidden in the Christian Western World due to greed love and unfortunate lustful desire. 

This is causing unnecessary rampant moral laxity shamelessness spreading all over the world in the name of material progress, advancement and freedom combined to bring nothing but misery and chaos as we all witness which continues unabated. 

Such is the evil of alcohol which cannot be contained morally and spiritually as curbed by moral teachings of Islam due to unfortunate greed, desire immorality and above all intellectual dishonesty which has become the norm in the Society. Only God in His Infinite Mercy can save us’.

Wa Akhiri Da’awana Anil Hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen.