They can stop themselves, but they need help with quitting addiction, not punishment for their illness. Also, alcohol is one of the worst drugs, but it is lega

They can stop themselves, but they need help with quitting addiction, not punishment for their illness. Also, alcohol is one of the worst drugs, but it is legal. > In the early 2000s, the monetary cost of alcohol-related crime in the United States alone has been estimated at over $205 billion, more than twice the economic cost of all other drug-related crimes. > Alcohol is implicated in one quarter of all homicides globally. > A report released in 2001 showed that 80% of violent crime committed by young people in Estonia has been linked to alcohol abuse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol-related_crime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol-related_crime https://web.archive.org/web/20140504141105/http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/88/9/10-010910/en/ https://web.archive.org/web/20140504141105/http://www.who.in...