We need more warnings of this disease

[CHRISR999]

In order to save lives and families suffering we need more publicaty. Warnings what drinking causes. I remember my mother saying to me aww Chris I wish you would pack smoking in. Your better off having a drink than smoking. Smoking kills she said. That was decades ago.. This just proves how little we're educated about the dangers of drinking. Why isn't the topic covered in great detail. I saw a clip on you tube was 3 minutes long. Yet other stuff like covid gets hours n hours coverage. When alcohol is about to overtake and other cause of premature death. Theses are our kids and families.. Where's the protection. It's Imorally wrong, it's glorified, it's not acceptable. Enough is enough

[CHRISR999]

Making money should never come before healthy. Without health your nothing. This government stinks. There a bunch of greedy tw.. S . Rich get richer while poor get poorer n die younger. Many of our kids and grandkids will die from liver disease. And the worst bit were allowing it to happen. There needs to be a BIG shake up. Action speaks louder than words and alarms.

[ZeldaGodoy in reply to CHRISR999]

There are a lot of rich people who are excessive drinkers. Surely its about education, making the alcohol more difficult to obtain and closing down institutions that promote excessive drinking. However in order to do that there'll then be an accusation of Big Brother and freedom to do what you want. It's really a no win situation and certainly not viable financially or as a human rights issue

[CHRISR999 in reply to ZeldaGodoy]

It's, a poisonus substance. Needs to be warned. If it was labelled what it really is then ppl would think twice. Instead it's glorified by idiots

[ZeldaGodoy]

I'm afraid that the reason alcohol issues aren't addressed in the same way as smoking is may be due to the fact that normal social drinking rarely affects people and its only binge drinkers and alcoholics who are looked at as problematical. Also alcohol has been around for so long yet a lot of the problems we have today are due to peoples excessive use of it. It is such a socially accepted thing that people don't often see or want to acknowledge how damaging it can be.

Even tv programmes that highlight the dangers really only take into account excessiveness and the news will show only those that are already drunk and behaving badly but not all drinkers do this, A friend of mine is an alcoholic although he was only active from the age of 17 until he hit his thirties, he says if he touched alcohol now it would kill him, similarly to what happened with Amy Winehouse. I never knew this was a possibility but hearing it from the horses mouth made me realise the effects are lifelong.

Its sad that society is only interested in a problem once it affects a higher proportion of people and what is more sad is that alcohol is accepted as the norm even now after the health issues have been addressed. People will only learn what they want to, will only give up when they want to and will only accept when forced to, look at smoking it took an extreme situation and a lot of medical intervention before the real action took place; and when you get nurses in hospitals telling you its great to have your gallbladder removed cos you get drunk faster you kinda question what education is being passed on.