It seems that never does a week goes by
that a new report that tries to demonize the moderate use of alcohol. It is beginning to sound like the days
leading up to Prohibition in the 1920’s.
The latest one came out this week by Washington University linking
moderate use of alcohol with “premature death”.
Unfortunately, most of these studies are more about binge or power
drinking and being related to a moderate use of alcohol.
Use of alcohol is being made responsible
for just about every affliction to mankind as well condition of the world
today. The devil himself could not do
all of the things that alcohol is being blamed for. If we spent as much money researching cures
for known diseases as we do looking for trouble where there is very little, the world
would be a lot healthier.
We have tried to use the law to get people
to stop drinking and it doesn’t work. The
recommendations of all these “new studies” included the same dusty proposals
that have been pushed by anti-alcohol activists since the end of Prohibition. The calls for more taxes, advertising
restrictions, and further limitations on alcohol availability. These policies
might all sound good on paper, but they do little to curtail legitimately
dangerous drinking habits. They have
tried all the same tactics related to the use of cannabis and now they are legalizing
it and people are not using it any more or less than they did when it was
illegal, only differences is they don’t have to be “outlaws” to enjoy it.
The good news for those of us that do
enjoy an occasional alcoholic beverage is that many of these assertions are
overblown and not backed up by the available science. It is like most everything else in this world
including food, a little bit is fine, but over do it and you will suffer.
Read
more about this study at https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/demonizing-alcohol-a-war-on-moderation
