A. Increase Mather and Puritan Clergyman once said ‘’Drink is in itself is a good creature of God, and to be received with thankfulness, but the abuse of drink is from Satan, the wine is from God, but the drunkard is from the devil. Woe to drunkards’’ (1673). The use of fermented beverages such as fruits, honey, grains and juice existed in the early years of Egyptian civilization (pubs.niaa.nih.gov). These fermented beverages were used in making alcohols. So lots of Native American civilizations also developed the concept in pre-Columbian times (drugfreeworld.org). The concept, which was also known as liquors, was greatly used for medical purposes. Then, the concept (alcohol) took the turn from the medical purpose to pleasure in that, it consumption,
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The influence of policy trends as well as historical events versus changes in the cultural factors and approaches about the use of the (alcohol) plus the kind of lifestyle all reflects in per capita of the concept (drugfreeworld.org). Although it’s much easier to identify the overall changes in per capita consumption over the past 150 years. However, the rate of consumption consistently increased from the mid-1880’s through to the 1915 and decreased just after the 1919 enactment of prohibition (Alcohol Epidemiology, 2000). But in 1934, the prohibition ended, thus, consumption of all kinds of liquor increased in spite of the consequences involved (behavior) until it reached the year 1975 where it (consumption) began to decline to an estimation of about 43% (pubs.niaaa.nih.gov). According to research, the greatest quantity of alcohol consumed by the people of America during the past 50years was, spirits, beer, whiskey, and …show more content…
And this is still affecting millions more people in America, a report by the World Health Organization. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, which is commonly used as the illicit drug. To this regard, it became a concern, issue to the government, thus, came up with a policy that focused on economic, social, and health issues of the public, which underlie the use of drugs as the lack of attention to legal drugs and ultimately failure of the drug war to address drug problems in a more effective way. So the administration passed ’interim national drug control strategy’’ which questioned the 1986 strategies and tactics of the war on drugs initiated by President Reagan (Scutchfield and Keck, 2003). Eventually, it was concluded that federal policy should shift its focus to the domestic law enforcement plus the reduction in demand (on drugs) whiles maintaining Reagan’s drug policy on international drug interdiction (U.S department of health and human services, 2010). Inasmuch, heavy reliance was placed on incarceration, drug interdiction, and other strategies for criminal justice. But did it stop or minimize the concept (drug)? No, because recent research from the National Institute Of Drug Abuse, shows an increase in the percentage of both the youth and adults abusing drugs (2013).
The influence of policy trends as well as historical events versus changes in the cultural factors and approaches about the use of the (alcohol) plus the kind of lifestyle all reflects in per capita of the concept (drugfreeworld.org). Although it’s much easier to identify the overall changes in per capita consumption over the past 150 years. However, the rate of consumption consistently increased from the mid-1880’s through to the 1915 and decreased just after the 1919 enactment of prohibition (Alcohol Epidemiology, 2000). But in 1934, the prohibition ended, thus, consumption of all kinds of liquor increased in spite of the consequences involved (behavior) until it reached the year 1975 where it (consumption) began to decline to an estimation of about 43% (pubs.niaaa.nih.gov). According to research, the greatest quantity of alcohol consumed by the people of America during the past 50years was, spirits, beer, whiskey, and …show more content…
And this is still affecting millions more people in America, a report by the World Health Organization. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, which is commonly used as the illicit drug. To this regard, it became a concern, issue to the government, thus, came up with a policy that focused on economic, social, and health issues of the public, which underlie the use of drugs as the lack of attention to legal drugs and ultimately failure of the drug war to address drug problems in a more effective way. So the administration passed ’interim national drug control strategy’’ which questioned the 1986 strategies and tactics of the war on drugs initiated by President Reagan (Scutchfield and Keck, 2003). Eventually, it was concluded that federal policy should shift its focus to the domestic law enforcement plus the reduction in demand (on drugs) whiles maintaining Reagan’s drug policy on international drug interdiction (U.S department of health and human services, 2010). Inasmuch, heavy reliance was placed on incarceration, drug interdiction, and other strategies for criminal justice. But did it stop or minimize the concept (drug)? No, because recent research from the National Institute Of Drug Abuse, shows an increase in the percentage of both the youth and adults abusing drugs (2013).