Hence Alcohol Awareness Sunday in the Episcopal Church in 1997. First, let us share our Lord s awareness of the power of alcohol. There has been much justified alarm in this country in the last half century over the use of heroin, cocaine, marijuana, amphetamines and hallucinogens. But the fact is that alcohol is by far the most used and abused drug in the United States and always has been. It causes more deaths than all the other drugs put together and it always has.
Alcohol is the most used and abused drug in the world and it always has been.
It has been mankind s drug of choice since before the dawn of recorded history. The difference is not that the others are addictive drugs. Alcohol itself is a physically addictive drug which fact is a second thing to be aware of. There are two physiological indications and measurements of addiction. The first is tolerance which means that it takes a larger dose of the drug to achieve the same effect a smaller dose used to.