• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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    6 days ago

    even casual drinking increases your risk of cancers by alot. also promotes heart disease, alochol related damage, blood pressure issues. and thats where omezpic steps in, to curb alcohol abuse, plus type 2 diabetes.

    also besides alcohol is use to subdue a population from causing an uprising.

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      6 days ago

      even casual drinking increases your risk of cancers by alot

      Not according to the CDC. Binge drinking carries a host of risks, even if done infrequently. Moderate (ie, less than 2 drinks a day) drinking is generally not associated with negative health impacts.

      also besides alcohol is use to subdue a population from causing an uprising.

      I’ve heard both sides of this. Beer as an intoxicant reducing the population to drunken louts, incapable of self-defense. And beer as a social lubricant, capable of bringing people together for collective action.

      I don’t think the alcohol is the proximate cause, either way. Certainly, there have been a multitude of hard-drinking Revolutionaries and Reactionaries alike (Hoffbrau’s were popular with both Lenin and Hitler). Meanwhile, Prohibition as a public policy was largely used to harass the working poor and monopolize production/imports into the hands of well-positioned political insiders.

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      6 days ago

      Makes you wonder why weed got such pushpback then. Alcohol subdues a lot of people but aggravates a lot too, but hard to stir an uprising of stoners unless they are storming capitol hill’s taco bell

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        6 days ago

        actually its OMEZPIC now, and other GLP-1, its seems to be “treating” for different addictions. noticed how omezpic and similar drugs are getting dropped from insurances, when articles about alcohol sales going down. plus MITCH mcconnel being suddenly against the drug, hes deep in alcohol industry in his state.