Our younger folk are not drinking alcohol, good on them. alcohol is an anaesthetic and depressant. responsible for violence on our streets Acoholics suffer considerable excruciating debilitating effects of alcohol and die younger. Erosive gastritis, fatty liver, hepatitis, cirrhosis. deleruium tremens DT's. I ran the alcohol group at the Maxx Glatt detox ward in Ealing hospital. Our government drug dealers, knowing the dangers, still promote alcohol for taxes, yet wont tax billionaires.