"Promoters of our most abused drug are masters of deceit," he asserted.

Prodded by health and consumer groups, Congress finally acted last week to inform consumers better about the most abused drug: alcohol.

But your guys must've missed it because serotonin's a natural compound, on no one's list as an abused drug.

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Because prolonged exposure to abused drugs results in long-lasting changes in the brain, "addiction should be considered a chronic medical illness," the Barcelona scientists said.

"Clearly the most abused and destructive drug in our society is alcohol, and no one is advocating an advertising ban for it," he said.

What about the substance Ibogane that can save countless people addicted to that most lethal and abused drug, alcohol?

Alcohol is the most widely available and most abused drug, and it is the starter drug for youth.

Now there's an idea: Tax the two most abused drugs in America, alcohol and nicotine, to pay for educating people against all the others.

But in recent decades, scientists have discovered that alcohol can be remarkably toxic - more than any other abused drug - to developing fetuses.