To rant about alcohol and the way it's normalised?

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It's EVERYWHERE and it's poisonous. People normalise it..."Oh...wine o'clock already tra la la!"

And all that shite.

It's responsible for thousands of deaths and injuries and trauma every year and yet it's the first thing people think of when they want to celebrate something.

Get this

3 May 2017: New figures released today show that hospital admissions due to alcohol are at their highest ever levels.

The data, summarised in a release from NHS Digital, shows that alcohol-related hospital admissions in England have increased by 64% over the last decade, with an extra 430,000 people being admitted due to alcohol-related causes in 2015/16 compared with 2005/06.

This takes the total number of alcohol-related hospital admissions to over 1.1 million in 2015/16.

And this

Alcohol is linked to over 60 illnesses and diseases, including heart disease, liver disease and cancer. Figures from the local alcohol profiles for England show that admissions due to liver disease have gone up 57% over the last decade, and that the number of people diagnosed with alcohol-related cancer has increased 8%.

How is this a lovely drink? How is this something that is ok to do in front of children and even to allow children to partake of?

People on MN often say "Oh I let my 12 year old have half a glass of wine...it's a good way to introduce it!"

WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO!?

And new research points to the fact that it causes irreversable damage to stem cells, scrambling DNA and eventually causing cancers.

www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jan/03/alcohol-can-cause-irreversible-genetic-damage-to-stem-cells-says-study?CMP=fb_gu

Think about it. Society is not doing itself any favours.

Yep, I would go with that meta though personally I have never drank on a daily basis, even when a student

It becomes a problem when you find you really need a drink on a daily basis, and it's a need rather than a passing enjoyment that you can take or leave.

Or when you look back and realise that you spend every weekend drinking and drunk. Not good.

I'm not from the UK, its normal for my background to have wine with dinner every day. Only one glass though, occasionally 2!

"Domestic violence is not the preserve of 'violent men'. "

No, sometimes they're women or even children, but if they are doing domestic violence, they are VIOLENT PEOPLE. Doesn't matter if they get violent when they drink or when they watch violent films or watch boxing, or get frustrated at work or whatever excuse they give, they are by definition violent.

I agree a bit, I really don't like how judged you can be if you don't want to drink for whatever reason. As it happens, I do drink fairly frequently (sometimes in large quantities like on a night out), but I'm also sporty and have a job where I need to be able to concentrate, so sometimes I'll want to avoid alcohol to make sure I can do my run the next day or perform well in my meeting. But in my circle that's seen as weird and boring and everyone will try to pressure me into having a drink. I'm doing dry January at the moment and the number of people who've told me I'm "crazy" or "no fun" is just depressing