Alcohol is the leading cause of preventable deaths in our society. There are 40,000 deaths on highways each year and up to 25,000 of them are because of drinking and driving(alcohol). This means that two out of every five car fatalities involve alcohol. Consider this: each year alcohol results in millions of dollars in arrests, hundreds of thousands of dollars of serious injuries, and tens of billions of dollars in alcohol related costs, and yet it is still legal. It is time that we as a society realize that alcohol is a drug and should be treated like one. This paper will discuss the problems alcohol causes in our families, how detrimental it is to our society, and what we can and should do to stop it.

There are many different results of alcohol. Children die or are taken away from parents because of it. Alcohol is an extremely dangerous

Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life. New York, New York, Bantom books, 1989

The most popular way to end the alcohol problem is to ignore it and just pretend it is not there. However this is probably the worst way to handle the it. By ignoring it, all we do is hide the problem and endanger the lives of the family.

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