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SMART TALK by Dr. Amelia Raitt Payne
DRUGS AND ALCOHOL: As staff physician at the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, I've learned that that redundancies can actually be dangerous to your health.
Many drinkers, perhaps especially daily drinkers and binge drinkers, like to refer to drugs and alcohol, which implies that alcohol isn't a drug. Just whom do they think they're kidding?
Alcohol is one of our most dangerous drugs. If it weren't so popular among the powerful, the fact that it's the number one crime- and death-causing drug would prove to them that the so-called War on Drugs was pathetically naïve.
I urge my patients to try to remember to say alcohol and other drugs of just drugs.
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