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The Drinking Trap. Are You at Risk?

THE drinking of alcoholic beverages has two faces: one happy and the other sad. The moderate drinking of alcohol can make the heart of man rejoice, says the Bible. (Psalm 104:15) Yet, the Bible also warns that misuse can cause harm or can even be deadly, like the bite of a poisonous snake. (Proverbs 23:31, 32) Let us take a closer look at the high cost of the misuse of alcohol. “A drunk driver ran over a 25-year-old mother and her two-year-old son on Saturday. . . . The young woman, who was six months pregnant, died on Sunday. Her son, who suffered head injuries, is in critical condition,” reported the newspaper Le Monde. Sadly, such accounts are far from rare. Perhaps you know someone who was involved in an accident that occurred because of alcohol misuse. Each year thousands of people are killed or injured in road accidents involving alcohol. Death Toll Worldwide, the cost of alcohol misuse in terms of human life is incalculable. In France alcohol abuse is the third cause of death, after cancer and coronary heart disease, killing some 50,000 people directly or indirectly each year. This is “the equivalent of two to three jumbo-jet crashes each week,” according to a report commissioned by the French Health Ministry. The death toll exacted by alcohol is especially heavy among young people. According to a World Health Organization report published in 2001, alcohol is the leading cause of death among European men aged 15 to 29. It is predicted that soon in some Eastern European countries, misuse of alcohol will kill 1 out of every 3 young men there. Violence and Sexual Assault Alcohol contributes to acts of violence. Drinking can remove inhibitions and social restraints and can blur the way one interprets other people’s actions, making a violent response more likely. Alcohol is a significant factor in domestic violence and sexual assault. A French study of prison inmates suggested that alcohol was involved in two thirds of rapes and indecent assaults. Surveys indicate that in Poland, 75 percent of alcoholics’ wives have been subjected to violence, notes the magazine Polityka. The authors of one study estimated that “the use of alcohol is associated with an approximately two-fold increased risk of homicide within all age groups and that [even] nondrinkers living in homes with alcohol users were at increased risk of homicide.”—American Medical Association, Council on Scientific Affairs. Social Cost When health and insurance costs and lost productivity resulting from accidents, illness, or premature death are calculated, the financial cost to society is staggering. Alcohol abuse is said to cost Ireland’s four million people at least one billion dollars a year. A source quoted in The Irish Times stated that this sum is equal to “the price of a new hospital, a sports stadium and a jet for every Minister every year.” In 1998 the Mainichi Daily News reported that the economic impact of heavy drinking in Japan was “more than 6 trillion yen [$55 billion] a year.” A report to the U.S. Congress declared: “The estimated economic cost of alcohol abuse was $184.6 billion for 1998 alone, or roughly $638 for every man, woman, and child living in the United States that year.” And what about the psychological cost of broken or bereaved families and stunted educations or careers? what do you think ? if you have doubt, you can find http://www.watchtower.org/

Public Comments

1. alchohol is great!, get a life Fuck you E you twat
2. Everything in moderation, kid.
3. Alcohol is a bad thing and people just don't realize it so is hard to tell them. Now most people here will disagree with me on this one, but the reality is that is the truth. When you hear someone killed someone there is usually an alcohol involved in the whole thing. 95 percent of the killings in America are done because someone is drunk, because they loose their ability to see what is right and wrong and that's a fact. The problem is we all think that in moderation we can do it normal, but it doesn't work that way because the first drink is the drink that get's you. People here are going to give me a bad rating, because they can't accept the truth, but it is the truth.. Alcohol leads to a lot of shit and the worst part is that it doesn't kill you right away you go from stages - 1. you star with a six pack, and it progresses to where you are buying kegs. and that's when all the diseases start. The truth is no one needs alcohol, it's just people that can't relax and try to find something to calm down for a temporary basis and is soo hard to tell a drunk. so you don't help them you let them slowly kill themselves because that's what they want, some see it and accept it and some of very few admit they have a problem and do something. I have accepted it, on people and I accept that I can only change myself, but I also know that the world is a fucked up place. My friends drink and drive, but I can't say anything to them they have to see that is wrong, and they will eventually when divorces happen, lost licences, accidental deaths.
4. no its someone who is so worrius that worries about stuff like that if ur so worried about the water put it through a filtered bottle/jug
5. I would advice you to stop drinking
6. Everything you say makes sense, EXCEPT getting your medical advice from The Watchtower. I mean, how can you make all these statements, yet refuse the potential lifesaving qualities of a properly-applied transfusion? How can you pray for healing, yet forget to pray that Jesus would lead you to a good doctor? [I'm a Christian, but 1/3 of my doctors are Muslims, and two more are Hindu. Is Jesus going to send me to Hell for patronizing a non-Christian doctor, or did He work to see that these men and women crossed my path at the times I needed them most?]
7. Drinking and driving are fun. It uncrowd's our planet. Drinking responsibly is our responsibility. But you lost all creditabilty when you refered to THe watchtower. Don't you understand prohibition will not work. Do gooder's like you has cigerrette smoking costing so much that thousands of kids are not getting enough food because parents choose cigs over food. Next thing you will want is govt in our bedrooms.They use to be and many a man went to prison for certain acts with their wifes. So lighten up DUDE! God is not the answer, it's in the bottom of a bottle!!