He believes that the only group that would benefit from this recommendation would be non-drinkers. Those who already drink heavily often experience many family and social problems and are encouraged to abstain from alcohol as much as possible. Moderate drinkers simply need advice as to when and in what frequency they should be consuming alcohol. This leaves only the non-drinkers who often don’t enjoy alcohol anyway. Lowenfels believes that telling non-drinkers to drink is opening society up to the many dangers that are often associated with alcohol. This article states that nearly ten percent of adults in the United States are alcoholics. Our society is plagued with many problems directly associated with the use of alcohol. Excessive drinking contributes to over 100,000 deaths and costs the U.S. nearly 100 billion dollars in the treatment of alcohol addiction. In Loosening The Grip, by Jean Kinney relates that even moderate alcohol consumption can cause problems for people with existing cardiac or circulatory problems. It also states that people with established hypertension, alcohol can make the management of blood pressure more difficult. Even though these symptoms are not overwhelmingly common in moderate drinkers, the dangers and the negative affects of alcohol may be observed within the alarming percentage of the population that are either abusing or have become addicted to alcohol.These are all of the reasons why that recommendation of alcohol is not a viable method of prevention. Alcohol contributes to more deaths and personal and family problems than any other substance available, legal or illegal. Alcohol induce moods occur in different people after different amounts of alcohol has been consumed and there is no method available in which a doctor can prescribe the proper amount of alcohol to ensure effectiveness and avoid the negative affects at the same time. An estimated 11% of children in the U.S. are livin...
