Cheers!

This is a very well-written piece detailing the widely-acknowledged, yet so often overlooked, adverse effects of alcohol consumption. This topic is certainly an interesting one, since ethanol is one of very few recreational drugs that are almost universally legal around the globe. I definitely agree that there is a systemic, profit-driven force that perpetuates human society's obsession with what is, at its core, but a simple solvent molecule. One that, as you've outlined in this post, can damage almost any organ it comes in contact with. It is the same situation with the frequency at which opioids are prescribed in the US. Addiction to these substances is somehow normalized by the fact that they are in some way deemed "legal" and more "socially-acceptable" to consume (and abuse), despite the fact that addiction to opioids and ethanol are among the most physically harmful flavors of drug addiction. What's worse, is that when these patients end up being denied their opiates by their doctors, they turn to the black market in search of heroin, etc.. anything to curb the severity of their excrutiating withdrawal symptoms. It's truly amazing to me how much the greed and hunger for power of just a few people can end up shifting the widespread adaptation of nonsensical, damaging behaviors that ultimately result in the suffering and demise of an atrociously high number of human beings. While at the same time, many of these greedy profiteers of suffering could probably care less about how many lives were ruined while they were stuffing their pockets with cash.

I really do hope that one day, the masses will procure the ability to see through the blatant corruption that drives this futile cycle of "legal" self-destruction, and perhaps somehow shift the mainstream opinion towards that which promotes love, truth, and universal peace while simultaneously mitigating widespread desensitization to overt suffering, violence, and selfishness.