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AsapSCIENCE | August 5, 2025



From drug overdose to the war on drugs, what’s most deadly?
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  4. @kvd1

    August 5, 2025 at 7:29 pm

    Alcohol is the most addictive and toxic substance in nature.
    And some plants can exploit those microbes to help make their fruits more addictive and edible to herbivorous animals, and even use alcohol as a toxin against smaller animals(like insects such as aphids), and in the process of seed dispersal, the animals that carry those seeds can become drunk, and often even end up getting hunted by predators more frequently and those predators will help spread those seeds without knowing it.

  13. @iangardner3261

    August 5, 2025 at 7:29 pm

    Alcohol is the gateway drug to crime hard drugs abortion unfaithfulness divorce the list goes on on and on and on brilliant marketing and very profitable dark deals done with political establishments

  17. @tulpamedia

    August 5, 2025 at 7:29 pm

    I think that meth is the most dangerous drug. It may not be the most lethal drug, but it for sure makes up for it socially and mentally. Fentanyl kills a person very quickly, but meth will keep a person alive to witness and experience all of the pain and damage that they cause. Daily meth use can take decades to kill a person. It causes psychosis, risky/dangerous behavior, incredibly volatile emotions, and sometimes even violence. And meth doesn't really numb a person like opioids do, so the user fully experience the pain that their addiction causes

  26. @TheStoicNinja

    August 5, 2025 at 7:29 pm

    Guys im sorry, i mean ive done alot, and i really have abused alchohol, and i shit you not, hard drugs are expensive where i live, but the two times that shit was offered to me there was and i dont think ever will be a moment where i would think that would be a good idea, unless you are dosing or tricking me i wouldn't see a world where i could take anything like heroin, why does a person try that of their own will even after knowing what it will do to them?

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