{"id":209824,"date":"2022-10-08T20:15:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T14:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=209824"},"modified":"2022-10-08T20:15:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T14:45:58","slug":"say-no-to-alcohol-the-case-for-abstinence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/say-no-to-alcohol-the-case-for-abstinence\/","title":{"rendered":"Say no to alcohol: The case for abstinence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>– The post is based on the article \u201cSay no to alcohol: The case for abstinence<\/strong>\u201d published in the The Indian Express on 7th October 2022.<\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS1- Social issues. GS2- Government policies and interventions<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>– The article explains the challenges associated with liquor consumption in India. It also explains the need for communitarian action to reduce liquor consumption.<\/p>\n

What is our historical legacy against liquor consumption?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Temperance movement against liquor consumption began in the 1880s. Gandhi ji made it part of the fight against the British state.<\/p>\n

Gandhi\u2019s objection was to the state having a role in the production and distribution of alcohol. He did not support the complete prohibition. It will lead to corrupt practices by the state. He advocated self-regulation to avoid liquor consumption.<\/p>\n

Rajaji argued in favour of effective state intervention. The Indian culture against liquor consumption would make this process less corrupt.<\/p>\n

What are the negative impacts of alcohol consumption?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

It leads to violence against women.<\/p>\n

It mostly impacts the poorest sections of society.<\/p>\n

It is linked with multimorbidity, lower life expectancy, mental impairment, and loss of productivity.<\/p>\n

WHO, have issued stronger warnings against risk-free levels of responsible drinking and claims of beneficial health effects.<\/p>\n

A 2019 study in Science Direct estimates that alcohol-related deaths in India. It\u00a0 would lead to a loss of 258 million life years between 2011 and 2050, an average annual loss of 1.45% of GDP.<\/p>\n

A Lancet study claims that under 40 groups of people are at greatest risk due to liquor consumption.<\/p>\n

What are the reasons behind increasing liquor consumption?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Older cultural norms against liquor consumption have weakened.<\/p>\n

Alcohol is being glamorised and normalised by households.<\/p>\n

State governments policies have further compounded the problem. They earn higher revenues from the alcohol industry. It disincentives them against making difficult choices against liquor consumption.<\/p>\n

Why is there a need for action at the community level?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

A study published this year by the US National Bureau of Economic Research states that it takes a village to discourage drinking and sustain abstinence.<\/p>\n

All drinking, whether small or large, creates negative impacts that are unpredictable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source– The post is based on the article \u201cSay no to alcohol: The case for abstinence\u201d published in the The Indian Express on 7th October 2022. Syllabus: GS1- Social issues. GS2- Government policies and interventions News– The article explains the challenges associated with liquor consumption in India. It also explains the need for communitarian action… Continue reading Say no to alcohol: The case for abstinence<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[263,212,10500],"class_list":["post-209824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-1","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704738488},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}