Artwork shows awkward truth about drug use

Artist Daniel Britton has created a series of infographics detailing drug use in the UK. For example, he's visualised the most lethal drugs, the average deaths they cause each year and also which are most popular.

These graphics present some awkward truths about drugs (for instance, that alcohol is more dangerous than ecstasy) and you can see a selection from the full set that he has made below.

Britton says: "It's so nice to visually shake off the stigma that has so wrongly been applied to the dance music scene for so long."

Drugs in descending order of lethality

Drugs in order of average yearly death rates across the UK

Drugs relative to number of users

Daniel Britton got all data from the BBC. All statistics are based on average number of deaths per year in the UK.

[Via the BBC]