Alcohol abuse kills many people globally: If this is so why legalize it?
If we say that alcohol is friendly and does not kill we are cheating ourselves because the truth is, alcohol abuse kills. Many people have fallen due to their abuse of this substance and that makes us wonder why this killer substance is not illegal like other illicit drugs. We may not understand why, but we are going to continue highlighting the bad sides so that you can make very informed decisions for yourself. Speaking to the experts at AWAREmed health and wellness resource center, doctor Dalal Akoury MD, agrees with the findings of the World Health organization, that alcohol is killing more than 3 million people globally each year translating to one person every 10 seconds. Does that scare you? The picture illustrated by these statistics is that more than the population of people losing their lives due to AIDS, tuberculosis, and violence put together die as a result of alcohol. It must be made clear that these statistics includes alcohol-related driving fatalities, violence, and health issues arising from excessive alcohol consumption.
Alcohol abuse kills many people globally: Understanding how alcohol kills
Because alcohol is legal in most countries, and because especially in the US and western culture, in general, it is promoted in advertising and glamorized in the film, its dangers are often minimized or disregarded by young people, and the warnings about problem drinking and its consequences are viewed as the admonitions of uptight grown-ups. Unfortunately, the facts support the admonitions. So, how can alcohol kill you? Here are a few ways it can and does end lives:
- Drink driving accounted for ten thousand deaths in 2010 that was over thirty percent of all traffic fatalities. For how long will we be losing lives because somebody is sitting on their jobs, the authority, the drivers, passengers and the other general public must work and pool together to reduce deaths on our roads.
- It is estimated that an acute alcohol poisoning kills over one thousand people each year.
- The available findings from a study done about some years ago indicated that sixteen thousand people died in 2010 from an alcohol-induced liver disease.
- Over fifty percent of people who die in fires have high blood-alcohol levels.
- One-quarter of all emergency room admissions, one-third of all suicides and more than half of all homicides and incidents of domestic violence are alcohol-related.
- Unintentional injuries related to alcohol consumption cause over eighteen hundred deaths each year among college students.
- Health problems, including increased likelihood of stroke, diabetes, cirrhosis of the liver, esophageal cancer, and compromised immune system can lead, if untreated, to premature death.
- Alcohol in combination with other drugs, especially pain medications, tranquilizers, and sleep medications, can cause death by slowing down respiration as well as by causing the aspiration of vomit.
Finally, addicts may not understand what is at stake, because to them alcohol is all they know as solutions to their problems. Nevertheless, though there are some temporal benefits of using alcohol, the bigger picture is evident that alcohol is a killer. That is why we need to pool together and health our people from wasting their lives to this scourge. Therefore, if you are struggling with this problem, you can schedule an appointment with doctor Akoury today for the commencement of your recovery process.
Alcohol abuse kills many people globally: If this is so why legalize it?
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