Ether is administered very carefully by medical professionals. The next step beyond an anaesthetic state is death. Maybe we should take him along while we are carelessly administering alcohol to ourselves. Alcoholics are perceived as being weak people or as having bad habits. This is not true.
Alcoholism is the disease produced by the repeated misuse of ethyl alcohol.
It is a potentially Fatal disease, if the drinking is not interrupted. There are at least 300,000 alcoholics in Australia and 1 person in 10 who drinks at all will become an alcoholic. 1,600,000 Australians are affected either personally, or within their family by abuse of alcohol. Once alcohol is absorbed into the bloodstream, it is rapidly distributed throughout the body. It affects almost every cell, every organ, and every level of human functioning.