Professor David Nutt, the UK’s chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs was trying to make a point about the relative harms of drug use and how they can be equated with risks we take in other areas of life when he penned a recent article in the Journal of Psychopharmacoloy.

Professor Nutt (yes, really), decided to equate an addiction to horse riding with the use of Ecstasy. He calls the equine addiction "Equasy."

In his essay, "Equasy–An overlooked addiction with implications for the current debate on drug harms," Professor Nutt discussed the various ills to society brought about by the horse-riding habit of equine users. This involves risk of bodily harm to both the user and society at a comparable level to the use of Ecstasy (10 deaths and 100 traffic accidents a year, he says). Additionally, fox hunting leads to "gatherings of users that often are associated with these groups engaging in violent conduct."

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