Reply #72: Anyone who drinks more than 6 beers everyday has a disease [View All]

[fishnfla]

alcoholism is a disease that requires treatment. This is more than a legal issue, it is a public health and safety issue. This man's heart problems are only the begining of chronic medical problems he will face without intrevention. What are the social effects of chronic alcoholism? Ask any co-dependant. Age 44 is too young to have a heart condition.

If the tables were turned, would this man trust a doctor who drank too much every day? Would that Dr. even have a license to practice?

If the individual is having health problems related to his drinking and the Dr. does not take measures to correct them, and the patient strokes out before he is 50, is that medical malpractice?

If the patient informs the physician he drinks that much, the Dr does nothing, and the man plows into a schoolbus with a BAC of .15%,who is liable?

I am not concerned about the man's driver's license nor his freedom to drive. He is imprisoned and enslaved by alcohol. He needs help, he doesnt need to drive.

I am concerned with folks here defending excessive consumption of alcohol and the privelege to drive like they are some sort of god-given right. Priorities folks. Its beer. Its a car. Or its health and life.

Christ, we already got a drunk in the White House with this sort of enabling...