Alcohol and mankind have a long history, seemingly as long as time itself. Since the day alcohol has first been discovered, the substance has brought as much enjoyment as it caused pain and suffering. In addition to acting as a sort of social lubricant and a get away from personal issues, it has brought death, disease, crime, and abuse. Nonetheless, mankind gladly ingrained its usage into society, culture, and even religion .To this day we as humans still have not come to grips with ourselves, many of us are unable to do distinguish it from a standard soft drink. In contrast, the fact of the matter is that not only alcohol is a drug but one that affects us as a depressant. Alcohol slows down the brain’s ability to process information as efficiently …show more content…
The U.S. has spent many years attempting to control alcohol usage and its effects on various societal costs. Today we get to benefit from the refinement of the countries control of alcohol. Due to improved public safety, education, and pinpoint restrictions, compared to the past. One example of such attempts on alcohol consumption control was prohibition. The measure was an attempt to make alcohol illegal. It did this by making it a national constitutional ban on all alcoholic drinks. As a result, thus cutting off the entire industry, which provides alcoholic beverages to the population; therefore, forcefully supposedly making the U.S. …show more content…
Some implementations that would occur would be restricting places such as schools and government funded establishments. Moreover, such control measures that could be applied would be a requirement of a license to deliver or to sell and restricting what kinds of businesses are allowed to sell; although, “For effective regulation, quantitative theoretical models are needed to provide estimates of the effects of regulatory controls in different environmental contexts. Research is needed to develop adequate social, ecological theory to explain environmentally specific outlet effects” (P. Gruenewald, 2011, p. 4).Which shows that harm reduction is a much more focused effort, but can be time consuming, due to the time it takes to conduct