Gov. Alcohol Policy

Please Note: This is the second serial part of its previous posts titled: “Standard Alcohol Drinks Cause Alcoholism”.

Gov. Alcohol Policy License Standard Alcohol Drinks

Let me begin here from my previous blogs concluding question. Why does the Gov. Alcohol Policy Makers (APMs) continued to license, sanction or endorse those SADs for the public consumption, brought in by the Alcoholic Beverage Manufacturers (ABMs) despite the evidence that all of which potentially cause the alcoholism and its diseases?

Although it seems that the APMs acts irresponsibly in sanctioning such potentially dangerous SADs for the public consumption, nevertheless there are many reasons or compulsions that rightly or wrongly (inadvertently) seems to have prompted the authorities to sanction it. In fact I would rather like to point out a very good health reason that can in some way justify their endorsement of the SAD’s.

Many alcohol research evidences today proves that the “moderate” consumption of alcohol rather beneficial for health. It is concretely known to prevent some major heart diseases. In short the alcohol research suggest that moderate drinkers live longer than the total abstainers or the teetotalers!

However this good health reason for sanctioning the alcohol drinks for the public consumption for its moderate or safe use gets completely delued or fooled due to the Alcoholism Prevention Treatment Research Institutions “misleading propaganda”, which basically asserts that the “alcohol content in the beverage no matter high or low does not make any considerable difference! Therefore opting for the Low alcohol drinks in order to “cut-down” or moderate the persons overall alcohol consumption especially in the people who are prone or vulnerable to alcoholism (dependence), simply fail to work”!

Owning to this misleading propaganda the APM’s also do not bother much to independently probe into this matter of the LADs causing alcoholism or the dependence. They don’t check out to see whether the alcohol drinks can be basically divided into two main categories one as fairly safe and the other potentially dangerous for human consumption on the basis of low or high alcohol into it. And most importantly above what amount (approximately), the alcohol content (percentage) in the drink (v/v) becomes unsafe or potentially dangerous (as they do in the DWI cases) in regard to its causing alcoholism! Since the prejudiced propaganda claims that; ‘high or low alcohol content in the drink doesn’t make much difference in causing or preventing alcoholism’.

Therefore, as the Alcohol beverage industries continue to manufacture these SAD’s all of which contains the high alcohol content because that suits their high profit interest! Unfortunately the Gov. alcohol policy makers license or sanction them for the public consumption without questioning the safety aspects of the low and high alcohol content in these drinks on the basis of its available alcohol research.

Here I urge APMs please to see the basic difference between the SADs and LABs. All the alcohol research in this area basically suggest that while the former very much proven to cause alcoholism while there is no such research evidence about the latter. Therefore they should come forward to impose strict regulation, high taxation, prohibition or a ban of SADs while giving exemptions(at least the benefit of doubt) to the LADs.

The next post in this series is about “Alcohol Prohibition” its proponent or advocates. They mainly got defeated in their mission mainly because like the APMs they also failed to recognize the safety aspects of the LADs as opposed to the potential dangers of the SADs in causing alcoholism!

(The third blog in this series will be continued in the next post.)

PS. One can find a great number of documents regarding the “Alcohol Policy” in the Web. I have given some of its Web-links below, which I find very important. Its main aim is prevention of alcoholism and the Standard Alcohol Drinks (SADs) its main target! Ironically however, the same SADs features at the forefront in their much publicized Moderate (safe, low-risk, controlled) alcohol drinking promulgations despite all of it known to potentially cause the alcoholism, which includes the Alcohol Use Disorders.

However on the other hand the Low Alcohol Beverages (LABs) basically do not count in those Alcohol Policies, despite it having no research evidence of its causing the alcoholism problems! Perhaps they assume they need not bother about those LABs, which is not evidently known to cause Alcoholism problems!

http://www.marininstitute.org/alcohol_policy/index.htm
http://www.icap.org/
www.alcoholpolicy.niaaa.nih.gov/
www.niaaa.nih.gov/Resources/DatabaseResources/APISexpertpanel.htm