Alcohol dependence is a major public health concern.
The WHO, in its Thirty-second World Health Assembly in
1979, resolution WHA32, 40, declared that Alcohol
problems now rank among the world's major public health

concerns which constitutes a serious obstacle to socio-
economic development and threatens to overwhelm the

health services.
Consumption of alcoholic beverages has seen
tremendous increase in most countries of the world, in the
last two decades (WHO Tech, Report No. 650, 1980).
Another report of WHO in 1982 (Medicine Digest 8 '12,
1982) showed that by 1982 beer production was increased
by 124% world-wide. In Asia, in some countries, the
increase was 500% while in some African countries, the
increase was 400%. Even remote villages in many third
world countries were consuming alcoholic beverages, while
they lacked clean water, sewage disposal and primary health
amenities.
The socio-economic problems due to alcohol have even
more deleterious effects on the community than the
staggering health problems. There is a consistent
correlation within a community between per capita
consumption of alcohol and crimes of violence, traffic

accidents, major industrial and economic losses, besides the
cirrhosis of the liver and other alcohol related diseases.
The economic losses due to alcohol consumption is
U.S.A. in 1979 were estimated at the staggering figure of
43,000 million dollars (WHO Tech. Report No. 650, 1980).
UK. spent 3000 million pounds on alcohol in 1971, while
France spent 7000 million dollars and West Germany spent
27,584 million marks in 1971.
Alcohol features prominently in traffic accidents. WHO
statistics suggest that 50% of all traffic accidents are
committed under the effects of alcohol. In crimes of
violence alcohol plays a prominent role. WHO declared
that 86% of murder crimes and 50% of rapes and other
crimes of violence were committed under the effect of
alcohol (Daily Mail, June 24, 1980).
Industrial losses due to alcohol consumption are
tremendous. In Scotland alone, the losses are estimated at
100 million pounds annually (Scottish Council on
Alcoholism, Annual Report, 1977). In USSR, alcohol abuse
is the most important cause of absenteeism and loss of
production.
Nevertheless, many misconceptions about alcohol refuse
to die. It is considered as a social lubricant, aperitif and a
panacea for many ailments. Its presumed good effects on
digestion were proclaimed by many ancientnations. Even
renowned Moslem physicians like Abubaker Al Rhazi, and
Ibn Sina were commending liquor in moderation to keep
good health.

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