{"id":1433,"date":"2007-07-04T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/dddblog\/2007\/07\/04\/one-third-of-americans-abuse-alcohol-and-almost-all-abuse-something.html"},"modified":"2010-08-14T16:50:58","modified_gmt":"2010-08-14T21:50:58","slug":"one-third-of-americans-abuse-alcohol-and-almost-all-abuse-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/one-third-of-americans-abuse-alcohol-and-almost-all-abuse-something.html","title":{"rendered":"One-third of Americans abuse alcohol and almost all abuse something"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alcohol abuse is a huge problem in the US but there are problems with this report as well.<\/strong>
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\nWhen binge drinking is label as having 3 or 4 drinks and that is defined as “problem drinking” then some are really creating drinking problems where it does not exist.<\/strong><\/span>
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\nAsking people if they ever abused alcohol anytime in their life under predetermined criteria and then saying one third of Americans are alcohol abusers is like labeling one third of people violent because once in their life they were involved in a fight. Or if someone ever stole anything in their life labeling them as a thief forever.<\/strong><\/span>
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\nMore than one half of Americans have used Marijuana. How many once used deadly tobacco? Do we label all these as tobacco abusers for life? <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n


\nThe survey does tells us that most “abusers” do not seek medical treatment which tells us something else. Most abusers coped without treatment. Treatment for alcohol “abuse” is way overrated.<\/strong><\/span>
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\nThe real issue that nobody is looking at is why do people need to become dependent on anything? Most people are dependent on something, drugs, alcohol, tobacco, excessive food, sugar, TV, computers,religion,sex, gambling, gossip, obtaining wealth,sports, you name it. Could it be that most people do not find life on earth wonderful but often actually find life a drudgery that they need to find some escape from?<\/strong><\/span>
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\nWell, the only real long term escape from being human is to get out of the natural bodies we live in. There are only two ways to do that. One is death and the other is to be born again into a new body that you will not wish to escape from. That second option is what Jesus came to give us.<\/strong><\/span>
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\nInstead of looking at all the band-aids that people use to endure natural life we really need to present people with the only cure. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

One-third of Americans abuse alcohol: survey Top News Reuters.com: “CHICAGO (Reuters) – Nearly one in three Americans abuse or become dependent on alcohol over the course of their lives, and most never seek treatment, according to a study published on Monday.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alcohol abuse is a huge problem in the US but there are problems with this report as well. When binge drinking is label as having 3 or 4 drinks and that is defined as “problem drinking” then some are really creating drinking problems where it does not exist. Asking people if they ever abused alcohol […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[206,326],"tags":[148,328,114,190],"class_list":["post-1433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-total-nonsense","tag-america","tag-crimedrugsetc","tag-logic","tag-voices-of-reason"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pawsE-n7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}