• #20: How Alcohol Affects Us & Society

  • Oct 22 2021
  • Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
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#20: How Alcohol Affects Us & Society

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  • We all know that alcohol abuse causes tremendous negative impacts for individuals and society. The cost of excessive alcohol use in the US alone reaches around $249 billion every year. And the aggression and violence that comes from such an abuse has tremendous impacts through broken families, traumatised children, etc. But a recent scientific study of 25 000 individuals point to the fact that there is no safe amount, that all alcohol consumption is harmful to the brain - something the Vedas have made clear since time immemorial. In this episode we take a closer look at the most wide-spread drug of all. We speak about the idea that ‘everything that exists in nature is meant for humans to consume’ - actually, the reality is that we need to be selective, because different substances that we take in to our bodies bring us into different states of consciousness. You’ll also hear us talk about how people use intoxicants like alcohol as a way to escape pain and misery, and why this ne
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