Each and every time someone ingesting alcohol feels a slight "buzz" they've destroyed at least 10,000 brain cells, and these cells do not grow back.
However, drinking in moderation every day is very healthy for you.
Just ask the alcoholic beverage industry; they'll tell you!
We can therefore safely assume that the exploding pandemics of cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's disease, STD's, & AIDS, would not be here today if all who are ill had imbibed alcohol in moderation each day.
And because moderate alcohol drinkers live longer, they should feel completely free to always drink in moderation prior to getting behind the wheel of an automobile and entering rush hour traffic...statistics prove that they are not a threat, because if they were a threat then they wouldn't be healthier and live longer, would they?
However, the one question which troubles me is this: The same Medical Profession and Alcoholic Beverage Industry which tells me that moderate alcohol ingestion is healthier than not drinking, are the identical and same industries that claim "ALCOHOLISM IS A DISEASE!"..."IT RUNS IN FAMILIES!"..."IT'S GENETIC!"..."AN ALCOHOLIC CAN NOT STOP AT ONE DRINK, BECAUSE THEIR GENETIC "DISEASE" TAKES CONTROL OF THEIR THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS!"
These industries become obscenely wealthy both selling alcohol to the public, and also simultaneously treating the results of their "salesmanship": counseling broken homes, numerous traffic accident deaths caused by alcohol, child abuse, incest victims, alcohol addiction resulting in death, detox clinics, etc...
So, it only makes sense to find out if you are an alcoholic before you ever take your first drink...right?
But...if drinking alcohol is the "trigger" that alone proves you are an alcoholic, then alcoholism is not a disease at all...but is behavior induced addiction; no different than the use of heroin or opium or meth!
Because if alcoholics only became alcoholic by drinking, then heroin junkies who only became addicted by taking heroin are simply "suffering from a disease"!...right?