Do you believe if someone tell you they are 'social drinkers'???? I don't...There is no such thing at a 'social drink', you either abuse alcohol or not. Obviously I'm not talking about having a drink with friends or during a social event once in a while here. I'm talking about drowning one's problems in a bottle of wine or something like that, I'm talking about relaxing with a beer in your hand every evening in front of the TV, I'm talking about dropping unconscious on the dance floor in the middle of a disco...that is a problem, isn't it??!! and there is no such think as 'not having fun without a drink in one hand and a fag in the other'... Some people should seriously get a grip of themselves, not because someone else says so, but for the sake of their families....
The general view is that the alcoholism and binge drinking of a few should not have any impact on those who drink responsibly (related to the recent debate on increasing the price of alcohol). Unfortunately if it was as simple as that… Those “few” have risen to an alarming number. Almost a million people visited clinics and hospitals for alcohol related problems, last year. Alcoholism is a serious problem or to define it more appropriately – a serious disease. Once inflicted, one becomes mindless of the health consequences. Binge drinking may be a lesser disease but has nevertheless obtained alarming proportions. One other fact about alcohol, which everybody has heard but nobody seems to take seriously is that scientifically speaking alcohol has been defined as a drug and quite a strong one as described by our lecturer in his lecture on drugs. The fact that it is a legally sanctioned drug makes everyone think that it’s not a drug or that it is a drug better than the others.
ReplyDeleteI quit drinking about two years ago and I don’t think a price rise will have any effect – more drastic measures are required.
Sudareth Kumar
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