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1Department of Public Health, University of Sydney, NSW.
Abstract:
Estimates of mortality attributable to legal and illegal drugs are often used in the debate on legalisation as an indication of the comparative harmfulness of the drugs concerned. Yet there are few data on the health impact of illegal drugs and mortality figures are not adjusted for prevalence of drug use. The estimates therefore indicate only currently statistically assessable harm; they do not reliably express either the comparative incidence of drug-caused mortality, or their innate harmfulness.
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