Alcohol should be recognized as a drug at the legislative level, – this statement was made by the representatives of the University of Cambridge, need to make the sale of alcoholic beverages prescription. Article scientists published in The British Medical Journal.
Cambridge experts have stated that from the effects of alcohol die every year much more people than illicit substances.
“Alcohol kills slowly. This disease, caused by his consumption of, and intoxication, and trauma that get consume alcohol,” the researchers write.
They are convinced that the availability and free sale of alcoholic beverages creates the situation that society is more dangerous than the use of people in tobacco and heroin combined. Experts urged to start issuing liquor only on prescription. This, in their opinion, it is necessary first of all to cease to consider the interests of big alcohol companies.
According to the published in Geneva report of the who, within ten years experts expect a sharp rise in alcohol consumption and mortality from the effects of alcoholism. The organization’s experts stated that now statistics on deaths from alcohol are higher than the mortality caused by such diseases as tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and diabetes.
Earlier Magicforum wrote that scientists had opened a new malicious side of alcohol.