<sarcasm> I can spend my days doing opium if I want. You can't tell me not to live on the street. </sarcasm> All societies struggle with drugs that become a dr

<sarcasm> I can spend my days doing opium if I want. You can't tell me not to live on the street. </sarcasm> All societies struggle with drugs that become a drag on the entire group. Opium in China, opium dens, crack, heroin, etc... I think there is a rate of decay. Alcohol kills you just slow enough for people not to care. Alcohol has just flown under the radar because it is bad, but not quite bad enough to kill people off early and reach the threshold where the majority of people realize it is bad. Alcohol drags on, and kills body just slowly enough that you can be productive and hit 50 before dying off. Then since you are 50+, everybody can chime in with explanatory excuses to cover their own drinking and say "he should have ran more", "should have eaten better". [Edit] Know we aren't supposed to talk about downvotes. But I am surprised that any post that is against alcohol, even on the basis of health, gets a negative reaction. When I post about alcohol being bad, I get a lot of responses from 'functional alcoholics' making pro-alcohol arguments.