“Harm per Litre”
“Harm per Litre” and how can we help Alcoholism is a world-wide epidemic. It is legalized, unregulated, socially accepted and even promoted. It is the only psychoactive substance that has no regulatory framework for control. I have been very interested in world-wide double standards when it comes to this disease. Governments are torn between compliance to international guidelines and their want for revenues generated from this industry. Recently WHO published a report detailing Alcohol’s prevalence in geographies across world, measures taken by Nations, WHO goals set worldwide and the progress against them. The data also points to the fact that a developing country, has highest increase in commercialization of alcohol and that in-turn increases the % of drinkers. What is amusing is that the EU region has a sustained decline in the per capita alcohol consumption numbers over the last few years. What is also worth noticing is Asia is on the rise (China and India...