re: Why Do Folks Get Drunk

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No, I'm not making that assumption at all. My point is that alcohol consumption to the point of drunkenness has adverse health effects. Again, that's not even debatable.

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beejon

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No, I'm not making that assumption at all. My point is that alcohol consumption to the point of drunkenness has adverse health effects. Again, that's not even debatable

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You said "If anything relationships were improved that night because me and my friends/family got to sit around, tell stories, and laugh until it hurt." You believe that getting drunk improves relationships. And yes, it does change one's personality, that's one of the reasons given for drunkenness. The suggestion is that more fun can be had, relationships are improved, life is better if one alters their mind through excessive alcohol consumption. In other words, individuals can't just be themselves, they must be someone else. Someone they're not when they're sober. I've never seen a dignified drunk person. There's always embarrassment in some form while inebriated, but that's funny too....to the drunk.

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Now,as far as maturity, hopefully you'll find acceptence of yourself to a point of not needing an alcohol crutch.

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Once again, the researchers found that abstaining from alcohol increases the risk of dying, even when you exclude former alcoholics who have now quit. (The thinking is that ex-drinkers might distort the data, since they’ve already pickled their organs.) While 69 percent of the abstainers died during the 20-year time span of the study, only 41 percent of moderate drinkers passed away. (Moderate drinkers were also 23 percent less likely to die than light drinkers.) But here’s the really weird data point: Heavy drinkers also live longer than abstainers. (Only 61 percent of heavy drinkers died during the study.) In other words, consuming disturbingly large amounts of alcohol seems to be better than drinking none at all.

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