Alcohol Abuse Major Social Problem in Britain - Press TV

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Press TV reports about the social devastation caused by the abuse of, and addiction to, alcoholic beverages in Great Britain / United Kingdom (UK).

In contemporary liberal democracies, the prevailing economic and political order encourages materialism and consumerism, as well as alcoholism as a way to escape social pressures, which destroys the lives of a great many citizens.


Date: 04.03.2008

Source: http://www.presstv.ir
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Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• UK
• Western
• Europe
• social
• issues
• secular
• liberal
• democracy
• freedom
• materialism
• drugs
• abuse
• alcohol
• public
• health

[trippy119]

too many morons in the uk & if your a moron your gonna be a bigger fucking moron when your pissed up!! we live in an overcrowded, over expensive, crime ridden, dull, boring culturless country where the weather is miserable 6 months of the year, & summers are rarely decent. its a crap boring country & the british are bored shitless basically, we need drastic change. the alcohol problem in this country has got steadily worse in the last 15 years or so, we seem to be going back to "dickens times"

[xxstarchildxx]

@LabRat6619 p.s I do agree with you about the culture thing, although I would like to ask what is your definition of culture?

[xxstarchildxx]

@LabRat6619 I agree with LabRat, it definitely feels to me at the moment that we don't have a culture. Although for change to happen we must restore it one person at a time...be the change you want to see. Not that I believe alcohol is bad in itself but there are so many more interesting and fun things to do that don't involve it...and are less destructive, or rather creative and pro-active

[wrealmedia]

check out "the history of alcohol" here on youtube

[LabRat6619]

Its exactly because WE DONT HAVE A CULTURE thats why people are alcoholics/druggies.

No wonder many immigrants think we are pricks, at least seeing the nobs that drift around the pubs!

[MrChickyBee]

LOL! Oh, please the Iranians have one of the biggest drug addiction problems in the Middle East and most of the world's heroin is produced by Muslims in Afghanistan. Let's get things in perspective.

[fiesta1100]

As long as the average brit has a belly full of beer and a football match nothing else seems to matter,No wonder the country is in the state it is.

[1FatSpaz]

I hate alcohol. I prefer to take some MDMA and drink juice all night.

[robertbb87]

If we went back to limited opening, People will just try and get wasted before last orders, I know I would.

[mattgordon78787]

lets just face it we are not europeans we are english and we are piss heads haha so are the fucking yanks