Essay On Alcohol In The United States
In the United States alone, there are 17.6 million alcoholics. That is about one in twelve people. Some people drink because the think it is fun and others drink because they have some sort of problem that they are trying to get through. Some do not know that they have a problem until somebody tells them or something tragic happens to make them realize their problem. Some of the tragic things that can happen to make them realize that they have a problem, is either someone dying because of them or them getting sick from too much alcohol. The amount of deaths from alcohol poisoning in the United States is about 2,200 a year. That is a lot of people who did not know that they had a problem. Another thing that can happen to make them
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Whether you lose your family due to your addiction, you lose someone to alcohol, or you lose someone who was hurt by someone who was under the influence. The loss of your family due to addiction would be really hard because all of the support to help you quit is pretty much gone. After that, I think that it would be close to impossible to quit. Also, losing a family member because of their addiction to alcohol would be really hard. Especially if everyone has tried to give them the help they need and they keep pushing away. But I think the worst thing would be losing someone who was innocent and was killed by someone who was drinking. I think this would be the worst because that person would not have been doing anything wrong. So stopping DUI would help tremendously with cutting down on the amount of people who pass away in car accidents and other incidents due to …show more content…
The most common one today is a pledge to sign to not drink and drive. If everyone were to sign that pledge, the death my driving under the influence would be extremely low, if not zero. Another type of organization is Alcoholics Anonymous. These are meetings where everybody sits down and shares what they want to about their addiction. It is confidential, so nobody is supposed to share anything that they say or hear at these meetings. Not even the names of the people who attend. With the help of organizations the amount of alcoholism and DUI will drop
Whether you lose your family due to your addiction, you lose someone to alcohol, or you lose someone who was hurt by someone who was under the influence. The loss of your family due to addiction would be really hard because all of the support to help you quit is pretty much gone. After that, I think that it would be close to impossible to quit. Also, losing a family member because of their addiction to alcohol would be really hard. Especially if everyone has tried to give them the help they need and they keep pushing away. But I think the worst thing would be losing someone who was innocent and was killed by someone who was drinking. I think this would be the worst because that person would not have been doing anything wrong. So stopping DUI would help tremendously with cutting down on the amount of people who pass away in car accidents and other incidents due to …show more content…
The most common one today is a pledge to sign to not drink and drive. If everyone were to sign that pledge, the death my driving under the influence would be extremely low, if not zero. Another type of organization is Alcoholics Anonymous. These are meetings where everybody sits down and shares what they want to about their addiction. It is confidential, so nobody is supposed to share anything that they say or hear at these meetings. Not even the names of the people who attend. With the help of organizations the amount of alcoholism and DUI will drop