Drinking is certainly not something to be encouraged.It has many social,financial,and moral consequences.Nevertheless it is a widespread habit.Everyone who drinks know the consequences,but still they drink.Social drinking is the most prevalent one.Social drinkers are not habitual drinkers or addicts to liquor,but occasionally drinks within limits-physical,social and financial.Habitual and addicted drinking are the extremely dangerous forms of drinking.It ruins the health,wealth and social respect of the person.
Then why do people drink?Not easy to answer.In my view every human being has a kink in his personality-A vicarious way of deriving pleasure.One such thing is drinking,smoking,Tobacco chewing,use of other injurious things like Supari are other examples.Passion for anything more than normal is a form of addiction-be it sports,art,religion and even work(holism) has an element of addiction.But how does one define "normal"level of activity in any such matter?It will vary from person to person.
Smoking,use of tobacco and supari has seen a sharp decline in consumption due to various education programmes,there is no let up in the increase in consumption of Liquor.Spread of drinking among population including woman and young Adults are also on the increase.So there is something in liquor that draws people to it.Social researches have not thrown light on this reason so far.
There are quite a few who argue that total prohibition is the answer to this problem.Is it really so?Experience in Gujarat which is a total prohibition state even as of now,In Tamilnadu where prohibition was in force in 70s Andhrapradessh where NTR introduced prohibition in 90s have shown that prohibition could not contain addiction to liquor.But nobody is bold enough to stand up and argue against the prescription which is deadlier that the decease itself.For political correctness,the governments make some cosmetic changes which adds to the confusion.
Researches to the basic reason of liquor addiction is not something anybody is talking about.For that there has to be realisation that the problem cannot be solved by quick fix solutions.There has to be indeapth researches as to how addiction could be rectified.Today's De addiction centers are not effective.The De addiction therapy is on the premises that the patient has an intense desire to get De addicted.But the fact is that most addicts have no desire to get De addicted.Consequences of a person being addicted is suffered by his immediate family members,those closely associated or involved with the person.The person who is addicted is either unaware of the damage he is causing to himself and to others,or insensitive to it or feels that drinking is the most important thing in life.There could possibly be many other reasons within the unknown dark self of the person.
The problem cannot be solved by strong arm methods like legislation,prohibition etc.What is required is effective ways of change of mindset of addicts who ,in their present state of mind have no intention to change themselves.This requires more insights into the reasons why a person is in such a mental frame.The Government and NGOs concerned have to invest heavily into researches on this.ANY OTHER QUICK FIX SOLUTIONS ARE NOT GOING TO YIELD RESULTS
Then why do people drink?Not easy to answer.In my view every human being has a kink in his personality-A vicarious way of deriving pleasure.One such thing is drinking,smoking,Tobacco chewing,use of other injurious things like Supari are other examples.Passion for anything more than normal is a form of addiction-be it sports,art,religion and even work(holism) has an element of addiction.But how does one define "normal"level of activity in any such matter?It will vary from person to person.
Smoking,use of tobacco and supari has seen a sharp decline in consumption due to various education programmes,there is no let up in the increase in consumption of Liquor.Spread of drinking among population including woman and young Adults are also on the increase.So there is something in liquor that draws people to it.Social researches have not thrown light on this reason so far.
There are quite a few who argue that total prohibition is the answer to this problem.Is it really so?Experience in Gujarat which is a total prohibition state even as of now,In Tamilnadu where prohibition was in force in 70s Andhrapradessh where NTR introduced prohibition in 90s have shown that prohibition could not contain addiction to liquor.But nobody is bold enough to stand up and argue against the prescription which is deadlier that the decease itself.For political correctness,the governments make some cosmetic changes which adds to the confusion.
Researches to the basic reason of liquor addiction is not something anybody is talking about.For that there has to be realisation that the problem cannot be solved by quick fix solutions.There has to be indeapth researches as to how addiction could be rectified.Today's De addiction centers are not effective.The De addiction therapy is on the premises that the patient has an intense desire to get De addicted.But the fact is that most addicts have no desire to get De addicted.Consequences of a person being addicted is suffered by his immediate family members,those closely associated or involved with the person.The person who is addicted is either unaware of the damage he is causing to himself and to others,or insensitive to it or feels that drinking is the most important thing in life.There could possibly be many other reasons within the unknown dark self of the person.
The problem cannot be solved by strong arm methods like legislation,prohibition etc.What is required is effective ways of change of mindset of addicts who ,in their present state of mind have no intention to change themselves.This requires more insights into the reasons why a person is in such a mental frame.The Government and NGOs concerned have to invest heavily into researches on this.ANY OTHER QUICK FIX SOLUTIONS ARE NOT GOING TO YIELD RESULTS
