Comment on The way my daughter's middle school health class classifies drugs is insane.
BilboBargains@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I get the sense that the author hasn’t tried many or any of these substances and is trotting out the standard line. I didn’t see alcohol, cigarettes and Oxycontin mentioned.
If we’re going to have an adult conversation about addictive substances we should first talk about sugar and junk food. We should also discuss the dangers of a sedentary lifestyle, lack of healthcare and community, ignorance of mental health, motor vehicles, pollution, the criminal justice system, Judeo-Christian culture and being a person of colour. Those will form the major risk factors for human health.
Neon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Absolutely not. Cigarettes are way way way more dangerous than sugar and junk-food
NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 5 months ago
I mean yes but at least in the US the latter two are overwhelmingly more common.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Issue with the US is that HFCS is heavily subsidized, and thus added to everything.
Dkarma@lemmy.world 5 months ago
False. Heart disease is the number one killer.