Excessive Drinking Concerns

Suffering from alcoholism or drug addiction is horrible - I know, because I’ve been there. The shame, the guilt, the confusion - you sometimes feel dirty in a weird kind of way, almost semi-human - and this can leave you feeling terribly lonely, isolated and misunderstood.

Did you know that alcohol addiction is a common and fatal disease? Physicians have started to associate cancers with alcoholism. They also see many cases of diseases related to alcoholism that include alcohol-related cirrhosis, cardiomyopathy, gastrointestinal bleeding and pancreatitis. There are also those that suffer the consequences of alcoholism without ever taking a drink of alcohol. These include the innocents that suffer from fetal alcohol syndrome, a leading cause of mental retardation. Other grave consequences of alcoholism include the traffic accidents that drinking and driving cause, depression and dementia suffered by those with the disease, suicide, and homicide linked to alcoholism and the risk to children of alcoholic parents that they too might suffer someday the same illness

It is now common place to reject any person under the age of 21 who wants to buy alcohol from Friday to Sunday. It is a radical step in the UKs history as far as raising the age on alcohol consumption if it is only for the weekend. Many countries from around the world including [...]