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In the essay entitled "Equasy - An overlooked addiction with implications for the current debate on drug harms", Professor Nutt says an addiction to horse riding had resulted in numerous traffic accidents and even deaths but there was not a similar demand from society for it to be banned.
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In an academic article for the Journal of Psychopharmacology, Professor David Nutt, the chairman of the home office's advisory council on the misuse of drugs (ACMD) said an addiction to horse riding, Equasy, could have just as dangerous an effect on users as an addiction to the drug Ecstasy.
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Prof Nutt's article in Journal of Psychopharmacology is entitled "Equasy - An overlooked addiction with implications for the current debate on drug harms".
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In the article, titled "Equasy: An overlooked addiction with implications for the current debate on drug harms", Prof Nutt wrote that "equasy", short for "Equine Addiction Syndrome", had caused 10 deaths and more than 100 road traffic accidents a year.
Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009
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Using the same nine-point scale that his committee employs for drugs, he compares 'Equasy "and" Ecstasy ".
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