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How to Quit Drinking in a World Where it is Extremely Prominent?
Have you gone on social media and seen all the millions of memes joking about getting blacked out drunk, waking up in a strange place, and being a raging wreck and half?
Content like this is all over the internet, and it’s influencing people’s decision-making far too easily.
They romanticize alcohol and drug abuse as not extremely dangerous and self-sabotaging chaos of sadness. It’s shocking how many likes, shares, and comments these posts get and how many people are actively laughing about the harmful effects of alcohol and the ongoing cycle everyday people experience because of how deeply submerged our culture is in alcohol and substance abuse.
Today, our culture puts alcohol on a pedestal as if it is not ruining lives and causing people to sink deeper into depression, becoming suicidal, and disrupting the way we spend time together and connect.
As a result, most people don’t consider having 5+ drinks a night binge drinking, even though it is a severe issue.
“Excessive alcohol use is responsible for more than 95,000 deaths in the United States each year, or 261 deaths per day. These deaths shorten the lives of those who die by an average of almost 29 years, for a total of 2.8 million years of potential life lost.”- Centers for…
