Together with you, we need to tackle this problem of alcohol and substance abuse. We need to understand the enormity of the problem and the devastating effect it has on our communities.
We need to sensitise people to the fact that it is a social disorder that causes many problems at high cost, not only in monetary terms but also in human capital.
The social effect of alcohol abuse is manifold. It has an impact on the family life, starting with a shortage of money in the household to violent abuse of spouses and children. It affects the moral fibre of our society. It impacts on our mental and physical ability with even more devastating affects on pregnant women and their unborn children. It has an enormous impact on our children where we find learning disabilities, early school dropout juvenile delinquency, poverty, chronic unemployment, unwanted pregnancy, and so the list goes on and on.
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