Using Alcohol

I am not against the use of alcohol, although, like cigarettes, there should be warning labels on the bottles saying such things as: If you drink and drive, your odds go way down to stay alive.” “Think Before You Drink.” “Drink in Moderation before your liver gets a Perforation.” So no, I am not antialcoholic, but I am anti-social of those who think nothing of another human beings life.

A better bet would be to drink a nonalcoholic drink less than 0.5% in overall volume.

For those still living in the Stone Age, alcoholism is an addiction just like a drug. It can cause liver and kidney damage, and eventually kill you. It is a disease that once entered into the bloodstream on a continued basis, takes away your willpower, but it also takes away your friends, destroys your family, leaves you unemployed and takes away whatever self-respect you have for yourself.

And there is nothing worse than having two alcoholics side by side talking trash with and to each other. It’s a comedy of errors in every sense of the word.

Drunk #1: If I were preshadent, I would change a lot of things.

Drunk #2: Me too.

Drunk#1: I wanna be preshadent. You can’t be preshadent if I’m preshadent.

Drunk#2: I can if I wanna be. Let’s have another drink?

Drunk#1: Okay. What were we talking about?

Drunk#2: Me being preshadent.

Drunk#1: Yeah. You’d be good at it.

This simply shows the short attention span they have, and in some cases, alcoholics revert to violence.

But how bad can it get? How about burning down Aqua-Velva After Shave Lotion just to get to the raw alcohol content and drink it? Same thing with rubbing alcohol.

No matter how you look at this, alcohol is dangerous.

Ethanol and water are the main components of most alcoholic beverages, although in some very sweet liqueurs the sugar content can be higher than the ethanol content. Ethanol (CAS Reg. No. 64–17–5) is present in alcoholic beverages as a consequence of the fermentation of carbohydrates with yeast.

Think about that. Ethanol. Ethanol is a volatile, flammable, colorless liquid with a slight characteristic odor. Is it any wonder why alcohol is so dangerous.

Ethanol is an important industrial chemical; it is used as a solvent, in the synthesis of other organic chemicals, and as an additive to automotive gasoline (forming a mixture known as a gasohol).

And yet millions of people consume alcohol every day with the additive ethanol.

And make no mistake, both beer and wine is an alcohol.

Here is something to consider; In 2016, 10,497 people died in alcohol-impaired driving crashes, accounting for 28% of all traffic-related deaths in the United States. Of the 1,233 traffic deaths among children ages 0 to 14 years in 2016, 214 (17%) were involved in an alcohol-impaired driver. In 2019, 40 people in the United States died in drunk-driving crashes—that's one person every 40 minutes. These deaths have fallen by a third in the last three decades; however, drunk-driving crashes have now risen again and have claimed more than 14,000 lives per year.

Consider this an education. Consider it a warning. You put your life and the lives of others at risk when drinking.

There are AA ( Alcoholics Anonymous) groups all across the country designed to help those who truly are looking for help and support to stop drinking. There are also rehab programs readily available if one is willing to go there for help.

The best way to stop drinking? Don’t start.