Submission to WHO on health problems related to alcohol
consumption Please enter your organization's views on the
magnitude of health problems related to alcohol consumption:
(max 300 words) Alcohol problems are the biggest social medical
problem in industrialized countries. And soon it will be a big
problem in developing countries too, as the market in the first
and second world is almost saturated. And the third world has
not the necessary social and medical network for helping. The
alcohol industry of Europe and the USA makes the devolping aid
of those countries to a great extent useless. About the medical
harm of alcohol the researchers and health professionals, WHO
and other sources inform currently. Not wellknown enough is the
role of alcohol in the case of HIV infection. The latest study
we read is the American research fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) in Italy, which
shows that this problem has been underestimated a lot.
Underestimated are also the more psycholo