What causes alcohol abuse and more controversies?

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For alcohol recovery: Alcohol causes abuse is not a major reason of social problems, but is largely a result of those problems. Therefore, simplistic minimum age laws, zero tolerance, or reduction of consumption policies are made only for failure.

Earlier it was said that alcohol causes and alcoholism is the primary reason of bad-health, crime, and family violence and that drinking ultimately ruins the society itself. Drinking was said to transform people into drunkards. Sober drinking was impossible - all drinkers were on the road to get spoiled. Ways of cure were only: anti-alcohol theory, treatment and stop drinking.

Now when thought is changing everywhere, it is possible to expect a good framework and a century of failure, will be replaced with a more productive perspective.

Excessive alcohol consumption is not just to the poor and its existence among the affluent seems to have similar roots. More controversies are seen like: communities become weak, people change spouses and Jobs disappear on short notice.

Alcohol abuse is not a significant cause of society's problems. In this view, pursuing abstinence from alcohol is, at best, an indirect way to personal and social improvement. Reduction of social problems will require direct attention to the causes of dislocation and helping people adapt to those forms of dislocation that are truly inevitable.

There is much research still pending to be done of the scientific evidence that supports this way of thinking, the practical implications that it suggests, and the new questions that it raises. But, however this particular approach measures up in the long run and the urgent task now is to develop an alternative to the outworn temperance mentality that will enable us to think creatively about alcohol abuse and social problems once again.