Negative Externality Of Alcohol

Alcohol leads to a financial burden in a family’s household. For starters, alcohol is expensive, and most people don’t buy it off at first, and the bills will end up piling up one after the other. Alcoholics run up exorbitant tabs in bars, restaurants, and at the ball game. Then they might lose a job due to erratic behavior, absenteeism, or inability to

As of January 2015 alcohol related deaths were represented as accountable for approximately 6% of deaths worldwide. That is 3.3 million deaths from alcohol related car accidents to alcohol poisoning. The consumption of alcohol can be tied with being a factor in a variety of diseases, disabilities, tragedies, and crimes. An estimate of over 76 million people suffer from alcohol dependence and abuse. Consumption of alcohol can become a serious threat to personal and public health when an individual engages in activities such as binge drinking or drinking while driving. In other words, harmful drinking is anytime an individual becomes unable to have full perception and control of his/her surroundings because of alcohol. Harmful drinking can also be defined as a pattern of alcohol consumption causing health problems that are directly connected to alcohol.

Drinking causes untold damage to our society, it hurts people, it hurts families, and it takes loved ones away from us. Alcohol attribute

Alcohol use is associated with tremendous costs to the drinker, those around him or her, and society as a whole. These costs result from increased health risks (both physical and mental) associated with alcohol consumption as well as from the social harms caused by alcohol.

Alcoholism is a serious disease. It affects all parts of life and can cause serious consequences for the consumer and others around after using it only one time. Consequences of alcohol come from the substance itself and some are due to the effects around others. Alcohol affects the decision making part of the brain called the “Frontal Lobe” leading to bad decisions. Just like how, in The Great Gatsby, when Daisy was drunk she decided to drive Gatsby’s car and crashed into Myrtle which ended up killing her. Therefore, the production, manufacturing, and sale of alcohol should be prohibited in the United States.

There are many facts and stats to further prove that nothing good comes out of drinking. In 2014, 9,967 people were killed in alcohol/impaired driving crashes, accounting for nearly one-third (31%) of all traffic-related deaths in the United States. Also the 1,070 traffic deaths among children ages 0 to 14 years in 2014, 209 (19%) involved an alcohol/impaired driver. Many people don’t think about all the bad things alcohol does to people and how it has and does affect their lives. Many children are killed in car accidents each year just like adults which many people don’t think

Almost everyone has tried alcohol at some point, and many also use it as a regular basis in parties or other occasions. Alcohol is the most commonly used and abused depressant, which are drugs that reduce the activity in the nervous system. Despite the well-known consequences of alcoholism, millions of people still decide to constantly consume it. Even Though, it is affecting people’s mind and changing their behavior, and body. Their are effects that a person will get all based on the amount of alcohol consumed, age, and how long they’ve been drinking, and the family history of drinking problems.

In the diagram above, we have a normal downward sloping demand curve and two upward sloping supply curves. The lower one, the marginal private cost, represents the car firm's supply curve (remember that the firm's supply curve is also its marginal cost curve). The other one, the marginal social cost, represents the true supply curve (and, therefore, the true marginal cost of production) for society as a whole, allowing for the external cost of production. This external cost is represented by the vertical distance between the two supply curves (AB).

Alcohol can cause a major accident on the road that also affects other. Just by opening a can of beer can lead us or someone else to death. “Every 2-hours, three people are killed in alcohol-related highway crashes”(Chambers, 2010). It may be easy, but the consequences don’t come to mind before. The consequences of driving and drinking “are arrests, property damage, injuries, and thousands of deaths each year “ (Chambers, 2010). One of my friends lost her mom about two years ago because a guy was driving under the influence of alcohol and was speeding where he lost control of the car and crashed into the car. Yes, the guy is still alive and the only one affected was my friend’s mom, she passed away on her way to Colorado to visit her family but sadly she never made

“ The resources, analyze that alcohol the source of causing people to have their behavior change” and causes worst accidents(US D of H and H S 4). “The heavier alcohols create negative effects more than regular drinking alcohol in their body”(US D of H and H S 2). “Terrible effects come from heavier alcohols and their brain will not start developing their thinking start”(US D of H and H S 4). “The worst of underage drinking that people starting to drive their car and start drinking, chances of underage drinkers get in a car crash could lead in a horrible accident”(US D of H and H S 3).”Their brains get the risk of underage drinkers and decreasing the chance of people not have ability to start planning well in any worst situation”(US D of H and H S

In 2013, the cost for treating alcohol dependent cases not only rose but also doubled from 1.51 million to 3.13 million. Of these, 6,490 resulted in death. On a minute scale, excluding those who depended on alcohol; 1,008,850 adults here who are categorised between the age of 16 and over were administered into hospitals for alcohol related illnesses. It was estimated that in 2008, the total harm that alcohol caused to society was 21 billion a year, (National statistics, 2014). The issue of alcohol has and still is one of a political importance, given that the taxpayer funded this. Tackling the issue by raising prices to dismay the population from drinking has failed. In fact, it has increased; in 1992, 527 millilitres (ml) were consumed per person per week, it then peaked to 700 (ml) per week in 2012, (National statistics, 2014).

Alcohol misuse is described as an increase in alcohol consumption that puts an individual at an increased risk for health problems. The United States estimates there has been a thirty percent increase in the number of adults who are drinking more than the recommended amount of alcohol, increasing their risk for physical, mental, and social health issues (Welsh, Earley, Delahanty, Wright, Berens, Williams, Barnett & DiClemente, 2013). Twenty-five percent of these individuals are meeting the qualifications for alcohol dependence and tolerance, which is becoming a major issue throughout the United States (Welsh et al, 2013).

Since alcoholics can portray there is no problem, it is often difficult to spot a person in trouble, mostly while coming home from clubs or bars. In 1996 there were 1,893,700 drunken driving arrests in the United States. It is estimated that upwards of 75% of those arrested are alcohol abusers. In our nation, more than 20,000 people die annually in alcohol related car accidents. Despite the effect on motor skills and other normal brain functions, drunks still believe they are able to drive, resulting in many innocent deaths. Alcoholism also devastates families and loved ones of the addicted individual. Of the approximate 18 million alcoholics in the United States, each one adversely affects at least four other people. Families of alcoholics suffer the same symptoms of the disease as the alcoholic. Excessive use of alcohol claims at least 100,000 lives each year, either through accidents or health problems. This is 25 times more loss of life than all illegal drugs combined. Alcoholism and related problems cost taxpayers an overwhelming $85.8 billion in mortality and reduced productivity. However, alcohol is still looked upon as a non-threatening dilemma.

Because these people used alcohol they automatically put themselves at a higher risk, than non-drinkers, for alcohol-related injuries, problems with the law and many different negative health effects, including liver dysfunction, (MU Health, 2004). Users of alcohol also put others around them at a higher risk for negative consequences including disruption of events and studying, (Statistics on Alcohol, 2000).

Many alcohol consumers only think about the positive effects of consuming alcohol, the pleasurable time they will have with their friends. Little do they know, about the negative effects alcohol carries with it. This research will discus the negative effects alcohol has regarding: addiction, genetics, health, family, and advertisement.