Destructive Alcohol
Researchers have identified that addiction to alcohol lasts longer than addiction to any other drug, and drug and alcohol dependence often go hand in hand. Research shows that people who are dependent on alcohol are much more likely than the general population to use drugs, and people with drug dependence are much more likely to drink alcohol.
In 2014, the World Health Organization reported that alcohol contributed to more than 200 diseases and injury-related health conditions in individuals, most notably alcohol dependence, liver cirrhosis, cancers and injuries. Also alcohol-related harm is determined by the volume of alcohol consumed, the pattern of drinking, and, on rare occasions, the quality of alcohol consumed.
Men are more likely than women to have problems with alcohol, drugs, or the two substances combined.
If we pour a little quantity of strong spirits upon a growing plant in our garden or greenhouse, we shall soon see it shrivel and die. If we apply it to insects or small reptiles, which we capture for the purpose of this test, the same potent poison will procure for them a speedy death. If we force one of our domestic animals to take habitual doses of it, the animal will not only strongly protest against the unnatural and nauseous potion, but it will gradually sicken and lose all power for usefulness.
For example: If you wish to spoil for example the most perfect specimen of a working animal, say a horse, without inflicting mechanical injury, you could choose no better agent for the purpose of the experiment than alcohol.
The effects produced by alcohol are common, so far as we can discover, to every animal. Alcohol is a universal intoxicant, and in the higher orders of animals is capable of inducing the most systematic phenomena of disease. But it is reserved for man himself to exhibit these phenomena in their purest form, and to present, through them, in the morbid conditions belonging to his age, a distinct pathology.
Bad as this is, it might be worse; for if the evils of alcohol were made to extend equally to animals lower than man, we should soon have none that were tamable, none that were workable, and none that were eatable.
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