Should Alcohol Be Banned?

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Research Question: Should alcohol be banned?

Thesis: Alcohol might give you that extra buzz or release you temporarily from your circumstances, but the risk that come along with alcohol is not worth losing yours or someone else’s life. Alcohol destroy lives all across the world and the last thing we need is to be beat by a “man-made” object instead of growing to make things better.

Alcohol 's Effects on the Body | National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). U.S National Library of Medicine Available at: https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohol-health/alcohols-effects-body. (Accessed: 22nd November 2016)

According to an article from National institute on Alcohol Abusive and Alcoholism, alcohol can affect major parts of your body. Alcohol interferes with the brains communication and how it works. Drinking along time or too much can cause strain on your heart resulting in strokes, arrhythmias and high blood pressure. The liver can be effected by inflammations including Fibrosis, and Alcoholic hepatitis. Drinking alcohol weakens the immune system. Alcohol is a slow legal way to kill humans off.

Fahy, C. 'I had my first drink at age two ': Nick Carter opens up on downward spiral which led to alcohol, cocaine and prescription drugs addiction. Mail Online (2013). Available at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2429986/Nick-Carter-opens-addictions-new-autobiography.html. (Accessed: 22nd November 2016)

In his new autobiography, the Backstreet Boys singer opens up about his parents’ dependence on alcohol which he believes led to his addiction first to drinking and later drugs including cocaine, Ecstasy, and prescription painkillers. ‘My life plummeted to an all-time low,’ he says. ‘We’d chug beers and pound down sh...

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...in reality when you take that one drink most time people can’t get enough of it.

Sellers, S. The Sobering Truth: One Mans Journey From Failure to Faith. Barnes & Noble Available at: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/sobering-truth-steven-sellers/1102188515/2674522332055?st=PLA&sid=BNB_DRS_Marketplace%2BShopping%2BBooks_00000000&2sid=Google_&sourceId. (Accessed: 22nd November 2016)

This eBook by, Steven Sellers...the Addict. Recaps on his addiction to alcohol and its escalation to an average of two-fifths of vodka a day. Forced into a detox center and then treatment, his thirst for the alcohol caused him to leave behind his great career, a 19-year marriage, and two young daughters...and his soul. This book is another example that support my claim that alcohol is a beast that will take over your life and turn your family into strangers if you allow it.

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