Discussion 5

TuBinh Luong

Health 1050

Prof. Gustavo Ibarra

November 05, 2018

What Did We Learn from The Alcohol Prohibition?

It consists of the chapter that we’ve been talking about all throughout and about alcohol.

In today very last discussion I am going to go over all the sections and things that I’ve learned

and as a class found some information that we went through in class. So, the question for today

discussion is why did we learn from alcohol prohibition? Alcohol is known for most of their

effects on the brain. It first releases the cerebral cortex from its inhibitory control over

subcortical systems in the brain, kind of double-negative effect. As the BAC level increases, the

depressive action of alcohol extends downward to lower regions of the brain.

From a different resource and research, alcohol is known for the different allegation that

it came through. From the earliest days of European settlement, Americans drank prodigious

amounts of alcohol. Almost every aspect of early American economic and social life involved

alcohol. Far from being evil, alcohol was an essential element of the table, a stimulant for work,

and a social lubricant for good fellowship especially in a world where water purity was always in

question. One estimate puts annual per capita consumption of alcohol at almost 4 gallons in

1830.
 The temperance movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries grew as a reaction to the

perceived overconsumption of alcohol. It was one of the longest lasting social reform movements

in the United States and sought to radically change the way Americans consumed alcohol. Public

support of the temperance movement was a major impetus for the 18th Amendment establishing

national Prohibition. Followers of the temperance movement believed alcohol was to blame for

societal problems like unemployment, crime, poverty, and domestic abuse.

Many women recognized the damaging effects of drinking on the family and worked

through anti-liquor organizations and moral persuasion to regulate alcohol consumption. They

supported the power of the state to curb drinking and alcohol, even as the state denied women an

essential political right voting. Instead, women who supported the temperance movement

sponsored parades, established rooms stacked with prohibition literature, and canvassed for the

prohibition vote. Involvement in the temperance movement was a legitimate way for women to

enter the public sphere; in fact, many important suffragists got their start in the temperance

movement.

Participation in the temperance movement crossed gender, class, age, race, and religious

barriers. Groups such as the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, the Anti-Saloon League, the

Abstinence Society, the Independent Order of Good Templars, the National Prohibition Party,

and the Sons of Temperance all carried the message of total abstinence from alcohol and

encouraged political support for temperance reform using pamphlets, novels, newspapers, music,

sermons, lectures, and art.

In me believe I feel that there are rights and solvent solution to any regulation with

different prohibition that it results to be better throughout the year and to carry the movement in

and out every route is going through.