Medications can help the 1 in 12 people who suffer from alcohol use disorder. But most will never be treated.
There is something that kills more Americans every year than drug overdoses, than guns, than car accidents. It’s legal, doesn’t require a background check to buy, is widely advertised, and if you’re 21, you can probably buy it at your corner store. It’s called alcohol.
While cold beers, glasses of wine, and hard liquor cocktails are often treated as end-of-the-workday or weekend indulgences, alcohol is technically a psychoactive, addictive drug, one linked to over 50 fatal conditions, including heart disease; breast, pancreatic, and stomach cancers; liver disease; hypertension; and stroke. It contributes to the death of 140,000 people in the US annually, making it one of the leading causes of preventable death in the country.
More and more research supports the conclusion that even light drinking — that is, less than 15 drinks a week for men or eight drinks a week for women — can contribute to an increased risk for heart disease and cancers. More recent medical recommendations in countries like Canada have increasingly tightened, moving toward the idea that there is no truly safe level of alcohol consumption.
If YOU don’t want to have alcohol related health complications, you can choose not to drink it.
There, problem solved
Thanks we’re cured
Problem is though is that alcohol effects everyone. Drink driving, the idiot alcoholic induced rage/violence/fights, riots at sports events, taking up space at hospitals because someone wanted to drink too much.
Pretty much all of those are crimes too.
And we already tried banning alcohol. It uh, didn’t work and just led to the mob.
You can’t really ban something that you can create in your own house with some yeast and grape juice.
If YOU don’t want to have obesity related health complications, you can choose not to eat bad food.
There, problem solved
If YOU don’t want to have police related health complications, you can choose not to do crimes.
There, problem solved
If YOU don’t want to have covid related health complications, you can choose not to go out in public.
There, problem solved
If YOU don’t want to have suicide related health complications, you can choose not to kys.
There, problem solved
Damn it’s wild how so many of America’s problems can be cured by your suggestions, call Biden quick, we clearly need you in charge of policy.
If YOU don’t want to die in a rock climbing accident, you can choose not to rock climb.
I don’t know what point you were trying to make here, but I agree with your claims.
The point is that your argument is hollow, overly simplistic, and leads to nothing.
People have the freedom to choose, but it’s still important to educate and regulate the things we do so that we can reduce the risks.
The real answer is that this attitude is exactly why we don’t treat alcohol use disorder like the treatable medical condition that it is.