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Alcohol is the root of 62 diseases and a partial cause of dozens more (hsph.harvard.edu)
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[–] -5 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Dose makes the poison. Water can kill you. There's nothing wrong with alcohol.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    As someone who enjoys drinking alcohol: there's no beneficial or harmless amount of alcohol.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Yeah I'm sober a year now due to drinking myself into severe heart failure (ejection fraction of 17%, up to 47% now) and this is correct. If you can enjoy it great, but the second people start making excuses it's over, it's just a matter of how long the slide takes.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    There's nothing wrong with alcohol.

    Science says otherwise

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    As a nurse, yeah no, you can't really compare those. Water is essential for the human body. Alcohol has no benefits for the human body, quite the opposite.

    As far as I know, medicine came to the conclusion that there is no amount higher than 0 that won't harm your body.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    In theory, cocaine, opiates, etc. too. It's just that our culture does not fearmonger about "ethanol addiction", does not call "drinking" a slang term of junkies, and you cannot go to the shop to buy "Wallstreet Rush Hour", "Businessmen's salad", or "Charlie's Home-made Snowstorm".

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