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A 15 page discussion of alcoholism and its impacts to society. This paper discusses how we have historically dealt with the problem and makes suggestions for more effective intervention. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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in this country ever since the initial contact of European peoples with the indigenous peoples of the Americas. It can be contended that alcoholism in itself, however, didnt really
escalate into a significant societal problem until our population had grown to the point that people were jammed together into small geographic locations. Demographic congestion, coupled with such factors
as a transition from largely agrarian lifestyles to those that evolved around industrialism, poverty, and a gradual reduction in social mores and norms, led to a growing tendency not just
for alcoholism to evolve but it to have more and more of an effect on society as a whole. Alcoholism began to take
a particularly high toll on American society in the twentieth century. Even as early as the 1800s there had been considerable concern over the gamut of societal problems that
were associated with alcohol consumption. In the 1830s, for example, an average of 7.1 gallons of absolute alcohol was consumed per capita per year by those Americans that were
considered of drinking age (Foner and Garraty, 1991). Keep in mind this number was an average. It included not just those that imbibed but also those that did
not. This means, of course, that those who imbibed consumed much more than 7.1 gallons per year. The recognition of
alcoholism being a problem even during this early part of our history resulted in a number of societal reactions, two of the more interesting of which were the Temperance Movement
and the Anti-Saloon League. Each was launched primarily by those that had been the unfortunate targets of alcohol consumption. It is no wonder that there was a social
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