There is a debate happening now about the A, B, C classification of drugs under the Misuse of Drugs Act. Some psychiatrists and other ‘experts’ have recently suggested a new classification scheme and there have been reports just published by the Home Office and charities. However, no one has asked people who use drugs/alcohol what they think. This survey is to find out people’s views on the harms and benefits of different drugs, including alcohol & tobacco.
Please click on the link below to take part and let us know your views and please email to your friends!
http://www.nationaldrugsurvey.org
The National Drug Survey is being carried by a research team in Clinical Psychology at UCL, it has been ethically approved and all responses are totally confidential.
Celia, we’re happy to support this survey (and our users have completed similar surveys in the past but please keep posts about it to the Drugs section)
Welcome to partyvibe btw..
Could you please also tell us how we would be able to view the overall
results/report when the survey is complete?
Nice one raaa
I like BEER!
stats so far
StatisticsYou are the 214th person to enter your details
UK’s favourite drugs so far (you chose Alcohol):
Alcohol 52.5%
Caffeine 11.9%
Cannabis 10.7%
Cocaine 4.5%
Ecstasy 7.3%
Heroin 0.6%
Ketamine 0.6%
LSD 3.4%
no drug 3.4%
Speed 1.1%
Tobacco 4%UK’s second choice drug (you chose Ecstasy):
Alcohol 18.1%
Caffeine 17.5%
Cannabis 14.7%
Cocaine 6.2%
Ecstasy 14.7%
Ketamine 1.7%
LSD 3.4%
no drug 8.5%
Speed 1.1%
Tobacco 13%
Benzodiazepines i.e. valium 1.1%
no one owning up to steroids yet, although their abuse is massive
Would alcohol be the favourite if it wasn’t legal and regulated d’ya reckon?
Doubt it!
could be that although large abuse, no one classes them as their favourite… glad to see ecstasy is higher up than coke though
Hear hear. Maybe the results will have an impact on the legislations in the future
it can’t be long till they finally drop ecstasy to class B/C… they tried to in the late 90’s didn’t they? i vaguely remember summat about it
i think ecstacy and lsd should be moved out of class A, and have stuff like ketamine and alchahole moved up.
also i think they should be less harsh on the takers of the drug and instead focus more on the dealers.
but seeing as drugs will never stop being used as its been in the human stream sinse caveman times, the government should take it into there own hands so they produce pure products without it being cut ith aload of harmfull shit.
would never happen but is my opinion =]
The full results will be on the website when the survey is completed. And we are hoping to get some press for it, as well as publishing it in the medical journals. The other survey (of psychiatrists) brought up alcohol as third most harmful drug after heroin and coke. so it is a good point someone made whether it would it be people’s favourite if it wasn’t legal…
Thanks so much for your support on this one, i think we do need a major overhaul of these laws that are based on scaremongering and history rather than actual evidence…
Please forward it on to as many people as possible.
Ta!
also i think they should be less harsh on the takers of the drug and instead focus more on the dealers.
but seeing as drugs will never stop being used as its been in the human stream sinse caveman times, the government should take it into there own hands so they produce pure products without it being cut ith aload of harmfull shit.
would never happen but is my opinion =]
Should legalise the whole lot IMO – make it legal for doctors to prescribe the more dangerous and addictive ones… Take the rebellion factor out of the equation, and stop dangerous substances being supplied by equally dangerous people (always seemed a bit mad to me – leaving the supply of supposedly dangerous chemicals to criminal organisations who have no interest other than profit, and no one to answer to that they take any notice of)…. I would like to think the reason is one of hopeless naivety (only the hopelessly naive would think people are going to stop wanting mind altering chemicals), but the cynical side of me can’t help noticing the money being made on both sides, and the raging hypocrisy that has alcohol and tobacco legal, and all the others illegal (if safety is the principal concern then why have nicotine (a lethally dangerous poison in anything but minute quantities) legal? And as for alcohol – hands up anyone here who has never met a long term alcoholic….:crazy: Bet there aren’t many for that one…)
Legalise all of it, tax some of it to mitigate the cost to the NHS, and allow docs to prescribe the really addictive ones (and therefore give them a chance to heal addicts if they can)…. And that includes alcohol on the list of prescribable addictive drugs – there are plenty of wino’s about, and few of them ever even see a doctor before they croak – more would if they could get drink from a doc….
Taking any drug should be a personal decision like smoking or becoming or binge drinking, if it was legal and u could afford to do it, then it would be easier 4 people around u to provide help if required. somebody once said “There was never a drugs problem, before they became Illegal”. At one point in time you could got coke from harrods as pain medication! All drugs being illegal does is take the profit in too criminals etc pockets, instead of big businesses and the government. The opening scene in the film Layercake says it all when theres shelves full of coke etc all labeled up by FCUK
The current classification of many drugs is absolutely barmy. A case in point is magic mushrooms. What on earth are they now doing in class A?
I can understand (though not neccessarily agree) that certain substances are put in Class A owing to the potential harm they can present to individual users and wider society. Heroin for instance can be a real threat when abused not to mention worldwide trafikking financing terrorist activities etc.
But liberty caps? Jeeesus, here you have a plant indiginous to this country, no global trade, no criminal supply chain, no significant health threat to the individual user and I certainly can’t think of any communities that have been ravaged by tripping mushroom eaters.
The only reason they’re in Class A is because whichever government happens to be in power at the time want total control. They do this under a veil of protecting people from themselves (in itself pointless and futile) but the fact is they want to be able to control, quantify and measure every aspect of people’s lives.
Bonkers.
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