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Q.1 Hangover-Free Alcohol: This topic is briefly discussed in Chapter 5. Do some research and post your findings and thoughts.
Each year, about 90,000 people in the United States and 4 million around the world lose their lives due to complications raised after alcohol-abuse (Day, 2018). The alcohol incurs about $250 billion in cost on the national health budget in the United States (Day, 2018).
In a bid to save lives and reduce the burden on the health budget, David Nutt, British neuroscientist, came forward with the idea of alcohol without any alcohol in it (Kubota, 2016). The hangover-free alcohol has been named as “alcosynth” by the creator.
Mr. Nutt has claimed that “alcosynth” is about 100 times safer than actual alcohol. There are two reasons given by Mr. Nutt for this claim; first, “alcosynth” only has milligrams of alcohol (Kubota, 2016). Second, it is almost calorie-free. About 90 compounds go into the making of “alcosynth”, but there is little information available currently about the formulation of hangover-free alcohol. Many reputable scientists are reluctant to comment on “alcosynth”. According to them, it is yet to be seen what happens when a person overdose on the “hangover-free” alcohol (Kubota, 2016).
Q.2 The Prohibition: Watch this video about the prohibition and post your response.
Although humans have been creating slightly intoxicating drinks by fermenting various fruits for over thousands of year, the Americans by 1800 created various drinks that contained higher than normal amounts of alcohol (Prohibition, 2011). Alcohol became an integral part of American culture. History bears evidence that Americans at every instance had consumed alcohol (Prohibition, 2011).
The culture of drinking had been deeply ingrained in American society. The Americans developed a habit of drinking at any given moment. They just had to find an excuse to get themselves drunk. There was no answer from anyone about this romance with alcohol (Prohibition, 2011).
However, this culture made the Americans known as a nation of drunkards. American society became decadent as women and children suffered at the hands of the men. As Americans were always drunk, they were not able to provide their women and children with sufficient food, clothes and deprived them their rights.
References
Day, E. (2018). Facing addiction in America: The Surgeon General's Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health US DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, OFFICE OF THE SURGEON GENERAL Washington, DC, USA: US Department of Health and Human Services, 2016 382 pp. Online (grey literature): https://addiction. Surgeongeneral. Gov/. Drug and alcohol review, 37(2), 283.
Kubota, T. (2016). What Is 'Hangover Free' Synthetic Alcohol, and Is It Safe?. livescience.com. Retrieved 3 September 2019, from https://www.livescience.com/56353-what-is-synthetic-alcohol-and-is-it-safe.html
Prohibition: Home | PBS. (2011). Pbs.org. Retrieved 3 September 2019, from http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition/
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