For example, the University of California, Santa Barbara, found that 80 percent of paramedic trauma emergency calls are alcohol-related, as are the majority of campus police contacts with students. The director of academic counseling cited alcohol abuse as a prime reason for academic failure and student drop-out. Alcohol does not increase physical or mental skills. What it may do is increase confidence and decrease judgment and self-criticism. At least half of the fatal highway accidents involve drinking.
Alcoholics are morally weak.
Although there are still people who disagree, alcoholism has been medically and legally classified as an illness. Alcoholics are no more responsible for their drinking than tuberculosis patients are for their coughing. You can't become an alcoholic by drinking only beer. People who drink beer merely have to drink more liquid to get drunk than they would if they were drinking wine or whiskey. The really serious problem in our society is drug abuse.