[lincolnq]

Selection and availability effects should account for this, though.

[andrewfelix]

It might, but there are thousands of people with awful stories about Heroin. Negative effects extend far beyond the individual user, entire communities can be crushed by it's use.

[ZoFreX]

Most of the effects that extend beyond the user are more a facet of prohibition than the drug use itself, no?

[andrewfelix]

That is another point in entirely. But yes you are quite right. That is true for most drugs and how they are consumed.