DEA Says Alcohol Prohibition Worked

Frustrated that people continued to consume so much alcohol even after it was banned, federal officials had decided to try a different kind of enforcement. They ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols manufactured in the United States, products regularly stolen by bootleggers and resold as drinkable spirits. The idea was to scare people into giving up illicit drinking. Instead, by the time Prohibition ended in 1933, the federal poisoning program, by some estimates, had killed at least 10,000 people.

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Come to your own conclusions. Make suggestions. Is there any solution for the growing problem of substance abuse such as alcohol?

"Alcohol abuse causes problems with families, as 3 out of every 10 adults report that drinking has created tension and brought about major problems in the home.

In 2010 in the United States alone alcohol was the cause of around 85,000 deaths with around 22,000 of those coming from alcohol related diseases. This does not take into account the many people that are living and suffering from alcohol related diseases. A third of the deaths are from drinking and driving accidents and one of the main tragedies is that the death may not be of the alcohol impaired person, but it can be the passenger or another driver on the road.

The statistics on alcohol abuse by people that are underage are startling. According to a 2005 study teens accounted for 15% of all alcohol sold in the United States for almost $20 billion in sales. Even though people of the ages of 16-24 years of age account for 20% of the population in the U.S. that have a driver’s license they account for around 42% of the alcohol related deaths. On average underage drinking costs American taxpayers around $60 billion a year in medical costs and lost days of work.

Alcohol and the availability in an area is closely related to the number of violent assaults in that area. Areas that have more liquor stores and bars per capita have more violent assaults. Around 66% of victims between intimate partners where violence occurred have been where alcohol was involved.

In excess of 17 million adults in America can be put in the class of being an alcoholic or have a problem with alcohol abuse..."
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And people who ran the death camps along with the police who rounded up the Jews thought the holocaust was a good thing at the time.

When one is heavily invested in something they tend to feel a psychological need to justify it no matter how bad it is.