One inescapable fact is that, from the very earliest recorded times,
alcohol has been important to people. Selden Bacon, an early head of the
Rutgers School of Alcohol Studies, made a point worth keeping in mind.
He called attention to the original needs that alcohol might have served: to
satisfy hunger and thirst, to medicate or anesthetize, or to foster religious
ecstasy. Our modern, complex society has virtually eliminated all these
earlier functions. Now all that is left is alcohol the depressant, the moodaltering drug, the possible, or believed, reliever of tension,
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and maybe we need to make a better caring society
