>>80305
A big reason lots of people drink alcohol in the first place is because they cannot get proper healthcare or medicine. Compared to 40 years ago decent medicine (sleep aid, pain killers, stress relief) is so fucking restricted and over-regulated every doctor fears legal liability whenever they prescribe medicine out of assumption it will be abused (even when it's not the doctor's fault at all!) So we now have a defective broken healthcare system based on lack of trust. People no longer can get what they need so they self-medicate with booze, and thus, 45% increase in liver disease and death by liver cirrhosis.

Was the simple fear of drug abuse worth the skyrocketing deaths due to liver diseases and organ failure!?!? That's the reality society is going to have to figure out as more tax revenue dies out, less available workers, steep population and birthrate declines, etc. All because of the "fuck you I don't trust you, you are on your own" attitude we have today.