Even small amounts of alcohol can reduce coordination, slow reflexes, and lead to overconfidence. Alcohol is a factor in half of all highway fatalities and one-third of all highway injuries. There are still many other consequences of drinking. Falls, sickness, fires, suicide, and lost productivity are other examples. Today in the U.S., there are one hundred million drinkers and ten million are chronic abusers of alcohol.
People drink for positive and negative reasons.
Some positive reasons are to compliment meals, at social outings, and to relax with friends and family. Most of the time this kind of drinking is NOT abused. Alcohol can leave a sense of guilt which may lead to more drinking. This kind of drinking is very often abused. People drink to take their problems away, but, drinking doesn't solve anything- it just makes matters worse.