Alcohol Is No Drink

•     Mr. Ken Moroney, former Commissioner of NSW Police) "Alcohol misuse surpasses all other drugs in terms of the incidence of crime". He also stated, "An estimated 70% of incidents attended by Police each year are alcohol related. Almost 80% of domestic violence and street offenses are attributed to alcohol abuse. I believe alcohol is a greater problem; an even greater menace than the illicit drug problem. I don't diminish the seriousness of the drug problem, but we cannot ignore the huge issue of alcohol".

     (Note: That's because the drug ethane hydroxide/ethanol/ethyl alcohol has been made by those in power, and the drug lords that sponsor them, the Official recreational, psychoactive drug of Australia. It ain't no drink, Mr. Moroney).

 Mr. Ken Moroney said, "Alcohol abuse can have devastating consequences for the victims of serious assault, sexual assault, road rage and traffic accidents. The Community must accept a level of responsibility, and until this happens, any approach we take from a policing point of view will not work as effectively. The task ahead will not be easy, however, I am confident that education and a Whole of Government approach can prompt a shift in behaviour".

(Note: It might be able to... now that they've finally admitted that, "Alcohol is a drug....TOO!", and they can feel the ground shifting under their feet on this issue, when once they moved as fast as Continental drift!)

• Mr. Tony Trimingham (Family Drug Support) – "Alcohol is a drug, it should be called a drug and should be categorized as a drug. I believe it is the most dangerous drug that we have to deal with in our society".
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Prof. Fitzgerald, "I think that what has been said about alcohol being the most socially dangerous drug is absolutely true there will be people who are as drunk as a skunk who say, "AT LEAST I DON’T DO DRUGS!

• The Annual Review of Sociology – 1998 – states, "If you want to have fewer bad outcomes in terms of health, welfare and violence, the substance you want to focus on is Alcohol".

Former P.M. John Howard. stated…"Well, I can tell you, I will never favour legalisation of any kind of drug taking". ( In case no-one has informed you, Mr. Howard, alcohol is a drug!)

He also stated, "It (alcohol) destroys people's self respect, it destroys their hope, it leads to physical abuse of friends and family members, and the most appalling social consequences. (Note: He almost got it right. Ethanol drug abuse - just like any other form of drug abuse, buzzwords 'legal' and 'illegal' dismissed - does all the above. And as the old saying goes, "Abuse one, abuse all. Respect one, respect all").

• Bill Stronoch stated, " For teenagers the risk of alcohol currently far outweighs the risk of illicit drugs".

  ….. (writes Alison Cameron), "linking alcohol and illicit drugs would be too scary politically".But if alcohol is not a drug’, continued Alison Cameron in her article, "how are so many of our children drinking their way into a body bag?’

John Della Bosca stated, "When you look at homelessness, youth disaffection, suicide, motor accidents, occupational health, family dysfunction...alcohol abuse is a factor in all those equations"

• Dr. Alex Wodak stated, "We have got to make alcohol as big an issue as heroin". (Note: After he said this, Governments, Drug Lords and other vested interests continued in their deception when it came to this drug, and it took until the year 2008 for them to even admit to themselves, never mind anyone else, that alcohol is no drink, it is a recreational psychoactive drug).

 Dr.Gordian Fulde (Melbourne Hospital Emergency Dept.) stated, "The number of times where I've seen a drunk teenager, 15 years old, that's been in an assault or been dreadfully vomiting and things, I have and others have rung up their parents in the evening and the parents have been so drunk that they can't come and pick up their kids.....I mean, it's a massive problem, it really is....(ladies), they tuck away the mixers (the RTD range)....

-(Note: What we call the Ready To Deceive range...it's not just a 'drink', it's a 'soft drink'/kiddies cordial. This is another deception of the drug ethanol applied by drug manufacturers)

.....6 or more at a time, and that is dangerous to their brain and well-being....and the amount of assaults we see, in inner city hospitals, 50 to 60% of presentations at hospital are alcohol related".

•  Dr. Robert Graham works with alcohol-affected patients at Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital and spends a significant amount of time with people coming into the emergency department. He is fond of using a line penned by the British writer G.K. Chesterton : ``Men can always be blind to a thing so long as it is big enough.'' It is a paradox he hopes will illustrate the degree to which alcohol's health implications in Australia are ignored.
  "When you tell people that 3,500 Australians die  (the latest stats mentioned by the Government was 6,000 Australians!) because of alcohol each year it doesn't register because they just think it only happens to old drunks in the gutter,'' Graham says. ``But people need to realise that this is not the case. If you go around any hospital ward and take serious drug and alcohol histories, you find an underlying theme of alcohol abuse among people being treated for an extremely wide range of illnesses. We see little more than the tip of the iceberg. The more you look at alcohol, the bigger the problem seems.''

    A survey of children aged nine to 18, at an independent eastern suburbs school, released in 2007 , showed they had their first full glass of alcohol at an average 11.8 years almost four years younger than respondents to the 1998 National Drug Strategy Household Survey. 

    Many parents do not realise that alcohol is killing far more young people every year than other drugs.

    There is evidence alcohol can wreak long-term damage on still developing adolescent brains, leading to permanent memory loss and decision-making problems.