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  • Research has shown that chronic alcohol consumption for six months or more can produce permanent deficits and neural damage.
  • If your health care provider determines that you are not alcohol dependent but are nonetheless involved in a pattern of alcohol abuse, he or she can help you to: Examine the benefits of stopping an unhealthy drinking pattern. Set a drinking goal for yourself. Some people choose to abstain from alcohol. Others prefer to limit the amount they drink. Examine the situations that trigger your unhealthy drinking patterns, and develop new ways of handling those situations so that you can maintain your drinking goal.
  • Reducing underage drinking will require community-based efforts to monitor the activities of youth and decrease youth access to alcohol. Recent publications by the Surgeon General and the Institute of Medicine outlined many prevention strategies that will require actions on the national, state, and local levels, such as enforcement of minimum legal drinking age laws, national media campaigns targeting youth and adults, increasing alcohol excise taxes, reducing youth exposure to alcohol advertising, and development of comprehensive community-based programs. These efforts will require continued research and evaluation to determine their success and to improve their effectiveness.
  • The Christian Bible talks about Jesus turning water into wine at the wedding in Cana but there are also biblical warnings against drunkenness, which was frowned upon.

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