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How many people get injured or lose their lives in alcohol related traffic accidents every year? On an annual basis, how many alcoholics fail to get the professional alcohol treatment they require? How many people are the victims of alcohol related crime or violence each and every year? How many people face serious consequences in their lives because they received a DWI conviction? How many junior high, high school, and college students lose their lives every year due to an alcohol overdose? How many people’s lives are cut short due to unhealthy and hazardous drinking? How many individuals lose their lives every year because of drinking problems? How many children are born each year with fetal alcohol syndrome? How many people experience alcohol related depression? How many individuals lose their lives each year from a condition that is one hundred percent preventable, such as alcohol poisoning?

Why Would Anyone Want to Drink in a Hazardous and Irresponsible Manner?

So what’s the point in asking these questions? Basically to highlight the destructive and devastating nature of abusive and excessive drinking. Indeed, and based on the above questions, I wonder why anyone would choose to drink in an abusive and irresponsible manner.

Stated differently, with the host of employment difficulties, relationship dilemmas, legal proceedings, health problems, and financial issues that are interrelated with chronic alcohol abuse and alcohol dependency, why would any person with a common sense mentality want to drink in an excessive and hazardous manner? If truth be told when some of the above topics are looked at more closely, abusive and unhealthy drinking becomes more illogical and makes even less sense.

Wouldn’t you think that heavy drinkers would be able to see some of the alcohol symptoms that they display? In a similar manner doesn’t it seem reasonable to think that many more families would involve themselves in an alcohol intervention for the individual in the household who is an alcohol abuser or an alcoholic? What is more, wouldn’t you think that people who drink abusively would try to learn more about their drinking behavior by reading about various alcohol related statistics?

After reviewing the alcohol abuse and alcohol dependency research literature, the point is so significant that it needs to be repeated: With all of the damaging and unhealthy outcomes that are directly or indirectly linked to repetitive and continuous alcohol dependency and alcohol abuse, why would any person want to engage in excessive and unhealthy drinking?

What Can be Done About the Widespread Nature of Alcohol Abuse and Alcohol Addiction in Our Country?

So what can be done about the widespread nature of alcohol abuse and alcohol addiction in the U.S.?

1. Our students need more meaningful and more relevant preventative and educational methods and approaches so that more students at all grade levels, including those at college, are “reached.
2. With a similar line of reasoning, our students need to learn how to become problem solvers in life rather than resorting to the ”quick fix” and the “instant gratification” of an alcohol or drug abuse “buzz” or “high”.
3. Individuals who are alcohol abusers or alcohol dependent need to look look at themselves frankly and ask why they are not getting the professional alcohol therapy they require.
4. Society needs to get the message to more people about the destructive and damaging consequences of hazardous drinking.

There’s Room For Hope if Those Who Engage in Excessive and Abusive Drinking Can Become Motivated to Get the Alcohol Rehabilitation They Need

There’s a lot of room for optimism and hope if individuals can start drinking responsibly and those who engage in hazardous drinkingcan become encouraged to get the alcohol rehabilitation they need. Indeed, why put your loved ones through pain, turmoil, and suffering because of your repeated and continuous drinking when you have the power to control your life by drinking responsibly or even quitting drinking if you can’t control your drinking behavior?

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