Alcohol - the risks of excess and the rewards for abstinence.
The relationship that Irish society has with alcohol has long been identified as dysfunctional - a strain on our health service and the cause of crime on our streets, abuse in homes, and deaths on the roads. To lay it out in stark terms, the cost of alcohol related crime is estimated at one point two billion annually; there are two thousand hospital beds taken up each night as a direct or indirect result of drink...and that costs the taxpayer well over three billion euro. We are told that moderate drinking is not harmful, but drawing that line between moderate ...
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