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>> If you objectively try to figure out the most dangerous drug in the world, you'll quickly find out it's alcohol. Alcohol makes people act dangerously and kills tens of thousands in car crashes(in the USA at least).

Well no. If you want to be objective (in the USA at least) it's opioids. Also, If we had better stats on suicide I bet more would be done with opioids than alcohol, but I'm speculating at this point.

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Here's my source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HarmCausedByDrugsTable.sv...

That source is a few people in a room having a chat and creating a list of the most harmful drugs based on their opinions.

It's not really a source.

It's a survey from more than a couple dozen drug experts. If citing one expert is a source, then citing a survey of multiple experts is also a legitimate source.

That chart was an assessment of the situation in the UK in 2011, not the US in the present day.

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