ALCOHOLISM REASONS
Has become a symbol of prestige and success.
No society can withstand the trend when coupled with heavy pressure to drink in gatherings/ parties.
The real cost has gone down in most parts of the world in spite of increased taxation.
Production of alcohol has increased.
In Pakistan, in spite of law, it is still available.
SOME DEFINITIONS
ALCOHOLIC;
“who is unable to break his addiction”
HEAVY DRINKER;
“ who drinks because he likes”
ALCOHOLICS
Those excessive drinkers whose dependence upon alcohol has attained such a degree that it shows a noticeable mental disturbance or an interference with their bodily and mental health, their inter-personal relations and their smooth social and economic functioning; or who show the prodromal signs of such development.
CAUSES
Drinking companions
Receptions
Frustration at work
Disappointment in love
Psychiatric illness
Social gatherings
Failure of ambitions
Domestic disharmony
Serious emotional work
ALCOHOL-RELATED PROBLEMS
Crimes
Traffic accidents
Absenteeism
Low productivity
Cirrhosis
Heart diseases
Secondary poverty
Cancers
Resistance to infections
Tuberculosis
Mentally retarded progeny
Malnutrition in children
CRIMES ASSOCIATED WITH ALCOHOLISM
Rapes
Assaults
Homicides
prostitution
PREVENTIVE MEASURES
AT PERSONAL LEVEL
Religious education ( all divine religions), Psychotherapy.
AT COMMUNITY LEVEL
Cooperation, compulsory rehabilitation
AT NATIONAL LEVEL;
Political commitment
Legislation
AT INTERNATIONAL LEVEL
Restrict or stop import or sale
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