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Friday, July 6, 2007

Commentaries on Cook and Reuter
ALCOHOL AS A ‘DRUG’: A MORAL REVOLUTION
Addiction 102 (8), 1189–1189.




‘In terms of its effects on the human body and psyche, alcohol is simply another psychoactive substance’. This sentence, which begins the very able essay by Cook andReuter, embodies a statement that will be taken as a truism by most readers of this journal, but would be regarded as a fallacy, an outrage and an insult by many, if not most, ordinary citizens. Why is that claim controversial, and why does the rejection of that claim matter?

It is controversial, I would submit, because the mood in which the public, its elected representatives and their appointed officials consider drugs, drug-taking and drug policy has little to do with the calm, evidence-based, policy-analytical tone taken by Cook and Reuter .
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