Oh yeah - I went through the struggle and saw many Alcohlics get deep in the game to the point they drank themselves to death.
Some in the 30’s some in their 40’s some in their 50’s.
Saw a guy battle Alcoholism in the 80’s lost his family - job - everything - went to A.A in the early 90’s and cleaned up got a new job and was sober for 15 years till he went into work one day to find out he was getting laid off...he said fuck it and went back to the bottle and he went hard ..was dead within 5 years of that layoff and being sober for 15 years.
So even those who clean up and get their lives back can easily fall prey to the temptations and lose it all.
@Juanandonly is not alone generation after generation has been lured into the web of Alcoholism ..
Best information I ever came across and opened my mind was in the Book “Mental Chemistry” by Charles Hansel: (Book written early 1900’s)
“That people are beginning to think is evident;
formerly when men were discontented or dissatisfied they met in a near-by saloon, had a few drinks and promptly forgot their discontent and dissatisfaction.
The situation is very different under existing conditions, men spend their time reading, studying and thinking, and the more they think the less satisfied they become.
Leaders of men know this, for this reason England has her ale, Scotland her whiskey, France her absinthe, Germany her beer and we of America who are recruited from all of these have had all forms of alcohol, it is by far the easiest way of keeping the people "happy and contented."
A man who has access to a fair percentage of alcohol, will not ask too many questions, if he does give him another drink.
This method of reducing the citizens of a country to a kind of idiotic servility has the additional advantage in that it produces enormous revenues which may be used for reducing them to economic slavery as well as spiritual slavery, for the man who cannot think has but small prospect of ever coming into any understanding of spiritual truth.”