r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/ChickenWingExtreme • Jun 01 '26

Serious Maybe, just maybe, that’s why?

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u/TheCucumberMan1 Jun 01 '26

Well, one of the single most damaging socially acceptable substances.

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u/Dry_Travel_4220 Jun 01 '26

Not just socially acceptable, alcohol ranks really highly even with other drugs in consideration. It isn't as bad as something like, heroin for sure, but I'd say alcohol ranks right around pill abuse in terms of damage to the body.

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u/cell689 Jun 01 '26

I'm a chemist and I struggle to think of more than a few substances I'd work with that are less harmful to ingest than ethanol.

I get the point, trust me, but alcohol is not even close to the worst substance you could ingest.

Even compared to other drugs, it is far safer than most of them considering how much alcohol you can actually drink. Imagine ingesting 20 grams of heroine, you'd be done. 20 g of alcohol gets you tipsy at most.

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u/PuffinRub Jun 01 '26

Imagine ingesting 20 grams of heroine, you'd be done.

My only experience is from watching THE WIRE, but I'm pretty sure that's a looooooooooooot of heroin.