Inhibition in schizophrenia
Inflammation and depression
Health use patterns
Not so identical
Visual empowerment
Drug risks
Medication and memory
Stress and neurons
Virtual treatment
Mapping brain networks
Neurons and dendrites
Alcohol on the brain
Connecting for care
Parkinson’s and proteins
Personality and treatment
Driving reactions
Parenting profiles
The Toronto plot
Drug risks
How risky are drugs relative to each other?
[Answer]
Ranking drugs according to their health risks is helpful to plan risk minimization strategies.
This bar graph shows a new approach to ranking drug risks, called the Margin of Exposure (MOE). The ranking is calculated based on the known dose of a drug that causes a negative effect—the benchmark dose—and the estimated average amount a person would ingest.
For individual exposure, the higher risk drugs are alcohol, heroin, cocaine and nicotine. Least risky is THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), the active component in cannabis.
Source: Dr. Jürgen Rehm