Responsibility and Alcohol

Abstract

In summary, beverage alcohol has been successfully and safely used since prerecorded history for medicinal, religious, and recreational purposes. Societies with a consensus of what constituted responsible drinking had few problems with alcohol abuse, while multicultural societies such as the United States had, and still have, problems in the area of alcohol consumption because of conflicting views of what constitutes responsible drinking. Various models of alcohol education have been tried-most have not been successful. Since individuals in this country do, in fact, drink, the teaching of responsible drinking for those who choose to drink has lately emerged as a more hopeful model of alcohol education.