Europe has a lot of alcoholism as well, I have had a chance to observe it, and there are as much alcoholics by percentage, as could be in any non muslim country, and there (esp in irish descent people) it is a very cultural thing, they cannot celebrate without alcohol, and the celebration happens once too often : P.. It has become an essential part of western civilization, to celebrate with alcohol, but since its highly addictive, people don't wait for occassions to indulge in it. It is lesser though in eastern europeans ( cuz of a weaker economy, affordability etc) but very much there in Uk,and europe, US, Australia etc.
Infact doctors of all these countries are sick and tired of dealing with alcoholics ALL the time, it is such a huge burden on hospital funds when these alcoholics, for the most part, have always occupied more than roughly 65% of medical health care, and there isn't enough time for health professionals to focus on people's real health issues which do not stem from alcohol and addictions. If you have a bleeding arm, they wont see you because they know you're not dying, as much as the alcoholic, hit in an accident as they are busy with trying to save his life (err... so that he can go back healthy to drinking again
) .Here's a rough list,
1. More than 90% of horrible accidents, because of alcohol.
2. Life emergencies, 'cause of alcohol over dosage. Brain hemmorahages, obesity related disorders, diabetics,
Domestic abusers who hit people while drunk and etc. ( domestic abuse the highest by % in US, murders by domestic abuse also rampant > all due to alcoholism, loss of control, lack of sense of direction in life)
3. Chronic alcoholism, liver cancers other cancers, organ failures, critical care departments mostly occupied with that.
4. Young adults alcohol addiction with drug addictions, leading to,
a) a very high rate of suicide in young adults mostly in Europe( failed attempts, stay in the hospital for a long time)
it is so high , that in Ireland for example, there is only ONE man for TEN women! ( sharing the blame; discrimination increased by growing % of homosexuality too : P )
b) health problems, psychological problems towering in US, Eu, Japan etc where psychiatriac departments, and psychologists are over burdened.
[Interesting fact: out of all the health professionals, suicide rate is the highest among psychiatric doctors themselves
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Anyhow, all addictions are harmful, and ruin your peace of mind if nothing else. I don't think however that you can take addictions away by implementing bans, people just go crazy. Give people some true sense of God, and things start bettering up themselves, you cant tell all these suicidal depressed people to leave drugs just to improve their lives, when all they have is drugs/ broken families/abusive, abandoning or no parents/no sense of purpose or happiness, and they just live by the high they experience from substance abuse.
You have to give them some meaningful purpose in life. Only then the true revolutionary change of self comes from within, which comes by recognizing the Creator, other wise when you've had it all, the world just seems like a useless place altogether, and people just don't feel like living, furiously competing for high-class survival everyday, and hence choose to end their lives, or waste it by drinking and drug abuse.
And coming from these hopeless backgrounds, those who aim to fight back , end up becoming weird criminals, and being nasty to other people satisfies their sense of self, as if that is a way they are giving back to life, what they had received. You can only blame them so much, they see nothing worth living for, in this life.
Anyhow, another interesting hidden fact is that in some states they let muslim preachers in a lot in some prisons in the US, because the inmates are so violent and criminal, that its really hard to handle them, and there is some success with preaching to them about the one true God.
ok end of post : )
p.s : all this can be confirmed from uncle google, I did not have time to search post links, thanks .
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