Alcohol abuse is a wide spread disease of epidemic proportions. Everyone knows someone with a drinking problem. Alcohol causes impairment to both the body and the mind. Thousands of people are killed or injured every week due to alcohol related accidents.
Alcohol impairs a person's judgment and reasoning ability.
Alcohol abuse is a common problem among teenagers as well as adults. The human body gradually loses its ability to metabolize alcohol until it can no longer cope and an allergy to the substance results. Once that happens a person loses their capability to control their drinking and they become alcoholic. Alcoholism is this countries number health problem. Heart and liver disease results in poor health and ultimately death unless the person stops drinking.