Each year millions of people suffer from the effect of alcohol
and drug abuse, getting into illness, crime and death. In the
United States alone, 10 to 12 million men and women and their loved ones and
family suffer from alcohol. Additional millions abuse alcohol at great cost in
health. In Canada, it is said, "Alcohol increases business of
hospitals, ambulance drivers, doctors, and nurses." Alcohol abuse and dangerous
drugs have swept through Europe. Soviet culture, too, is playing enormous social
and economic costs. Developing nations are bothered by drug
problem--both ancient and modern. In this part of the world hundreds of millions
request doctors to ease their miseries and problems in life. These methods of
coping are unhealthy solutions! This passage is mainly about the
worldwide (46) and (47) abuse.
(48) million people and their families in America have
suffered from alcohol abuse. The alcohol abuse has damaged (49)
. The author strongly implies that the public should
seek for proper (50) to drug problems in time.