Alcohol-Related Violence Quotes
Despite his concern about the evils of cider, Adams downed a tankard of cider for breakfast every day of his life. There was a belief that alcohol drinks were safer than water in most cases. The Dutch New York Colonists introduced beer for breakfast.
He was describing the way that the Colonial America, Native American communities coped with the adverse consequence of violence brought about by liquor which had been given to the Indians by white traders for the purpose of impairing the Indians’ judgment so that they would trade more easily and on better terms. Since then and into the 21st century, business people have entertained’ potential customers with alcohol for the same general purposes.
Despite the known link to crime, and the fact that alcohol kills many times more Americans that do illicit drugs, Mr. Bennett and most of his successors did not target drinking in their various war on drug efforts despite the fact that alcohol is a much more dangerous and addicting drug than any of the illicit drugs. In the George W, Bush administration, health authorities in the government were ordered not to tell the public that alcohol was a drug despite the fact that all the Surgeon Generals and medical science has explained that it is not only a dangerous drug, but is a drug that induces violence more so than any other drug. The alcohol lobby did not want the public to associate the alcohol industry with the evils that drug dealers produce, so they used their political clout with the Bush administration for whom the industry provided large political contributions as well as conservative political consultants.
An Aborigine herself, she had co-authored a major study of 45 aboriginal communities of Australia’s vast Northern Territory—the alcohol abuse was so great that young pre teen girls were trading sex for alcohol, parents in large numbers were too drunk to care for children. Few children attended school. Many were physically abused. The Government responded by attempting to ban alcohol in the aboriginal communities and withholding government welfare payments from parents who would not send their children to school. At the time there were 470,000 aborigines in Australia’s 20 million population.
