Standard Alcohol Drinks SADs: Licensing Reasons

Please Note: This is the second serial part of its previous posts titled: “Standard Alcohol Drinks Cause Alcoholism”. Revised, updated and put forward in this post.

Gov. Alcohol Policy Makers Main Reason to License SADs

Let me begin here from my previous blogs concluding question: why does the Gov. Alcohol Policy Makers (APM)those who are designated to prevent or eradicate those alcohol(ism) problems on the contrary endorse those high alcohol content SADs brought in by the Alcoholic Beverage Manufacturers (ABM) despite the overwhelming alcohol research evidence that all of which potentially cause all the before mentioned horrific alcohol(ism) problems?

Although it seems that the APMs acts irresponsibly in sanctioning such potentially dangerous SADs for the public consumption nevertheless there are two main reasons or compulsions that seems to have inadvertently prompted them to license the SADs for the public consumption.

The first reason is: 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 having said that I should immediately add; this good health reason for licensing the alcohol drinks goes terribly wrong 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 in making its drinking safe! 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. 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 DUI cases by fixing its BAC limits) in regard to its causing alcoholism! Since the prejudiced propaganda claims that; ‘ all alcohol drink irrespective of the alcohol content in it high or low cause alcohol(ism) problems. In other words 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! And 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.

The second main reason for the Gov. alcohol policy makers to license the SADs is; total alcohol prohibition to prevent alcoholism creates Alcohol Bootlegging, its Corruption, Criminal Mafia, which make the problems far more worse! I am going to explain it in my next post in this SADs series titled; ” Alcohol Prohibition: Mission Failure Reason”.

Therefore on the basis of the above mentioned reason and the available alcohol epidemiological survey report hereby I urge the APMs see the basic difference between the SADs and LABs. to 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 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

Valerian Texeira. (Vallab)
Alcoholics Curewell
http://alcoholicscurewell.blogspot.com
http://www.geocities.com/alcoholics_curewell
http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com
http://www.geocities.com/scientific_misconduct