Posted on 09/25/2006 11:24:53 AM PDT by misterrob
WASHINGTON - Alcoholics Anonymous, the worldwide group that helps addicts stop drinking, may also help drive down the number of murders in a community, Canadian researchers reported Sunday.
As membership in the group in Ontario, Canada, increased between 1968 and 1991, murders there dropped off, said Robert Mann from the University of Toronto and Mark Asbridge from Dalhousie University.
Research has shown there is a significant relationship between drinking and homicide in Europe, the United States and Canada, they wrote in their report, published in the October issue of Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.
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But they found an increase of one AA member per 100,000 people was followed by a drop of 0.3 to 0.5 percent in Ontario’s homicide rate.
The relationship was only apparent when it came to men. They did not find a relationship in the case of women.
“Males drink more often, more heavily and consume more beer and spirits than females,” Asbridge said in a statement.
“Moreover, the nature of the link between alcohol consumption and violence is more readily a male experience, for example, drinking heavily in bar settings leads to aggression and violence.”
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I was a happy drunk.
Fat, ugly women across America call for jihad against AA.
beer
I alternated between homocidal and suicidal.
In the end I was a very unhappy one....
[[recovery ping]]
I was like Arthur minus the millions of dollars but I still wouldn't have done Liza Minnelli.
What's "goggling"?.........
Beer goggles make anyone seem attractive....
and because the rooster flies to the top of the barn every morning and crows, and the sun then comes up, that means that the rooster crowing causes the sun to come up.
this also implies that AA members will become murderers if left unchecked - kinda like saying that all college males are potential rapists.
It certainly helped in my community. My wife told me she was going to kill me if I didn't go to AA. (Just kidding sweetie)
"goggling"...never needed goggles to drink beer. Maybe a bib, at times...
That's how I interpret it too.
It implies that your view of the less attractive will be modified by consuming alcohol, , beer goggles, get it?
short step from there to runnign them all out of town on a rail, or maybe locking them up for their potential...
In some cases that might actually be true. Most alkies wind up dead, institutionalized for mental problems or end up in jail. Those that don't usually live miserable lives or make everyone else around them's life miserable.
How about murder victims? (Could be justifiable homocide in some cases, but murder victims, nonetheless.)
Homicides, DUI's and sales of liquor. Kinda obvious, huh?
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