Most of the time I like to talk about recovery. That recovery is possible, the miracle of recovery, how we get better together, how our lives get better day by day.
But there’s global picture that isn’t so positive. Scary stuff. From The Economist with a map:
THE world drank the equivalent of 6.1 litres of pure alcohol per person in 2005, according to a report from the World Health Organisation published on February 11th. The biggest boozers are mostly found in Europe and in the former Soviet states. Moldovans are the most bibulous, getting through 18.2 litres each, nearly 2 litres more than the Czechs in second place. Over 10 litres of a Moldovan’s annual intake is reckoned to be ‘unrecorded’ home-brewed liquor, making it particularly harmful to health. Such moonshine accounts for almost 30% of the world’s drinking. The WHO estimates that alcohol results in 2.5m deaths a year, more than AIDS or tuberculosis. In Russia and its former satellite states one in five male deaths is caused by drink.
That moonshine boast is a serious affront to the “moonshiners” in Tennessee. But then again our largest money making crop is marijuana and our meth labs rival the best in the land.
We really are addicted to instant gratification and our escape hatches.
Grateful for recovery
Jim
Not good statistics for sure. I would think that the Russians had a high ranking.
Someone has been drinking my portion. I hope it works better for them.