THE WORLDWIDE EPIDEMIC OF DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE - Donald D Schroeder - May 1982

Donald D Schroeder

In this issue we unveil the real causes and the solution to the most harmful social and health crisis facing the world today. Each year millions slide down the slippery slope of alcohol and drug abuse into addiction, illness, crime and death. In the United States alone, 10 to 12 million men and women and their loved ones and families- are crippled by the ravages of alcoholism. Additional millions abuse alcohol at immense cost in health and in lost productivity. In Canada, it is said, "Alcohol increases business-for hospitals, ambulance drivers, doctors, nurses, undertakers and grave diggers" (E.C. McKenzie). Alcohol abuse, heroin and other dangerous drugs have swept through Europe like a brushfire. Soviet culture, too, is paying enormous social and economic costs. Developing nations are plagued with drug problems-both ancient and modern. In this part of the world hundreds of millions crave addicting agents to ease their miseries and problems in life. These methods of coping are unhealthy solutions! It is time we understood why-and found the way out of today's greatest social plague besetting this supposedly enlightened 20th century. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library