Oi - behave yourself!

Following on from yesterday's post, Professor Nutt's report also considered the effect of alcohol and drug taking on society in general rather than simply on the taker, and here you cannot really argue with the report's finding that society is much more widely affected by alcohol-fuelled behaviour than by drug taking.  Again though, I'm not sure this has anything to do with any difference between alcohol and drugs as such, but is more down to the fact that people tend to drink in public, but take drugs in private, so anti-social behaviour as a result of alcohol is there for all to see, whereas any such behaviour as a result of drug taking tends to take place behind closed doors as it were.