http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/920 Bruce Garrett's Weblog. Essays and musings on my life and my world. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:22:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/920/comment-page-1#comment-22427 The Power of Alcohol - Postscript « The Van Der Galiën Gazette Sat, 08 Sep 2007 04:10:18 +0000 http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/920#comment-22427 [...] What actually struck me when I wrote the post was that there are very divergent attitudes towards drinking when you compare America and Europe. In North America alcohol is often seen as a ‘drug’, something for which there is a physical ‘need’ and thus something that needs to be ‘controlled’. Many a Hollywood star is shipped off into rehab followed by desperate statements about their troubled relationship with the bottle. And that for consumption levels that would only put you in the ranks of an average social drinker in most of continental Europe. Britain - as I can attest to having spent a few years working and drinking in London – is in a league all of its own when it comes to booze. [...] [...] What actually struck me when I wrote the post was that there are very divergent attitudes towards drinking when you compare America and Europe. In North America alcohol is often seen as a ‘drug’, something for which there is a physical ‘need’ and thus something that needs to be ‘controlled’. Many a Hollywood star is shipped off into rehab followed by desperate statements about their troubled relationship with the bottle. And that for consumption levels that would only put you in the ranks of an average social drinker in most of continental Europe. Britain – as I can attest to having spent a few years working and drinking in London – is in a league all of its own when it comes to booze. [...]

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