What Drug Are Americans Most Worried About? Hint: It's Totally Legal.
What drug poses the biggest problem in your community? When Americans are asked, the biggest answer isn't cocaine, heroin, marijuana, or opioid painkillers. Instead, Americans point to a totally legal substance: alcohol.
Those findings come from a new survey by the Associated Press–NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, which asked more than 1,000 US adults to identify how big of a problem certain drugs are in their communities. The results point to alcohol as the biggest cause for concern:
To some degree, this isn't too surprising. Alcohol, after all, is legal and arguably the most accessible of all the drugs for adults. The runner-up, opioid painkillers, also suggests a link to accessibility, since it's the widespread access and proliferation of these painkillers that caused the modern opioid painkiller and heroin epidemic.
Still, alcohol is a big problem in the US. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,...
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