Uh, no.
Yeah, alcoholics just get the DT's and liver disease.
Uh, yes.
If the active alcoholic continues down a road that this guy did, the results are the same.
Take a trip through a state mental hospital or on skid row.
However, not all alcoholics who continue to drink will end up like this, just as not all who use ecstasy end up like this.
"Active alcoholics end up the same way"
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"Uh, no."
Not these particular symptoms. But alcohol is the second leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. with about 100,000 deaths a year.
"Uh, no."
Uh yea some do. My aunt died before she was 40, and my dad (at age 38) nearly died from alcoholism. He had to be defibulated (sp?) 4 times, and was given his last rights because they were pretty sure he'd die.
I'm not going to argue that X is a terrible drug, and it does cause pretty bad side effects. However its not the governments job to save us from ourselves. To do that requires a substantial lose of freedoms that I'm not going to give up just so we can try (and fail I might add) to enforce our morality on others.