Which drug is worst?

This is my first ever blog. I've been told that for a Journalist it is of great importance to be writing a blog, So... this is it!

We were told to choose one of various subjects to base our blogs on and I chose health, I perhaps would have prefered entertainment, but what do you do.

The topic that brings me to this point, on the cusp of writing my first blog is... which is the worst drug. Now, I think this comes under health, i'm pretty sure it does, after all it is your health that would suffer as a negative result of taking drugs.

The inspiration for this "blog" is last weeks horizon, which I happened to watch. They did a countdown over the course of the program revealing which drugs scientists now consider to be the worst drugs in order. Heroin and Cocaine were at the top, no surprise there then. But, Ectsacy -also a class A drug- was 18th and alcohol was fifth and the program suggested if it was a new drug it would be banned.

Now, perhaps you can understand why I chose this program as the basis for my first blog. Of course for a student, alcohol is, you could say... quite important. In the program they stressed how bad binge drinking is for you but they seemed to not quite apreciate how in-grained the culture of binge drinking is amongst young people.

From what I've seen I can determine that virtualy every student and probably most young people binge drink on a regular basis. That is, certainly they do in Preston anyway. Most people I know go out drinking at least twice a week and i've heard tales from people about how they spent whole student loan payments in the space of just a few weeks on alcohol.

I guess my basic point is that many people (who let's see are a little bit older) don't realise that binge drinking is (it pains me to say) quite a major problem. In my opinion, it will take something more than just telling people how bad binge drinking is before people like me will give even a second thought to the idea of cutting down their drinking.