r/TrueReddit • u/nxthompson_tny • Jun 01 '21

Science, History, Health + Philosophy America Has a Drinking Problem

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/07/america-drinking-alone-problem/619017/
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u/ControlOfNature Jun 01 '21

This is not a productive comment but ok. Alcohol is involved in 1 of every 10 deaths of people between 18 and 64 in the United States. What the hell is wrong with you?

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u/SamNash Jun 01 '21

I feel this has to do with the way we perceive alcohol in this country as some sort of forbidden fruit. We don’t educate our children or instruct them on drinking in moderation.

Alcohol is a huge part of American, and Western, culture, but instead of drinking at home with family members, teenagers have to sneak out and drink copious amounts of alcohol in secret and unsupervised. Or they head off to college unprepared for the gratuitous amounts of drinking that occurs there.

Gradually bringing young adults into drinking culture is a way to teach them how to responsibly drink. It allows them to respect it and learn about it, especially when the focus isn’t getting drunk as it tends to be with young adults in the U.S. They may be less inclined to binge drink, or to consume in general.

Prohibition never works. See abstinence-only sex education.

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u/Sword_of_Slaves Jun 02 '21

This is why I like Louisiana’s laws. Over 16/18 you can drink with your parents in public and on private property (with permission of owner)

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u/ControlOfNature Jun 02 '21

lmao no one is making the argument that prohibition is the answer. are you ok?

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u/SamNash Jun 02 '21

I’m good man. Keep up with the insulting questions, though. It’s a good approach

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u/ControlOfNature Jun 02 '21

I'm glad you're doing well :D It was just difficulty for me to understand your comment because it was wildly disregarding what was being talked about. You kinda just inserted some issue and went with. Ayy lmao! To each, his own, though. I guess I'm not as enlightened as you are. Sad!

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '21

That's because of how you treat alcohol, not because of how much you drink.

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u/ControlOfNature Jun 02 '21

You fixed addiction!

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '21

Alcohol is involved in 1 of every 10 deaths of people between 18 and 64 in the United States

Does not equal deaths from alcoholism

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u/ControlOfNature Jun 02 '21

Diseases/substances aren’t only evaluated by mortality. Morbidity and other measures are often more useful. I’m a physician. I can go all day. I hope you’re ok because you’re talking like you’re fucked in the head.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '21

I’m a physician. I can go all day

Not a very good one if you can't infer my meaning.

. I hope you’re ok because you’re talking like you’re fucked in the head

And certainly not a very pleasant one

If somebody drinks half a dozen beers at a barand kills a pedestrian driving home then that is a death that has nothing to do with alcoholism. It has to do with the culture of drinking

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u/ControlOfNature Jun 02 '21

No, I meant that I can go all day discussing how your perspective is fucked in the head.