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Aymanam Panjayath
Devika Rajan
INTRODUCTION
Alcoholic beverages have been in use throughout the world for millennia. Although only
a minority of consumers is adversely affected, heavy consumption can cause untold misery, such
as the disruption of the family, long tern effects in the children, wife and the burden on the
community as the drinker's working efficiency and ability to support himself and his family
decreases. "Excessive drug is liable to cause profound social disruption particularly to the family,
marital and family tension is virtually inevitable" (Oxford, 1976)'. The wives of heavy drinkers
Alcohol
The widely used and abuse drug among youth, causes services and potentially life
threatening problems for this population. Although alcohol is some time referred to as a gate
way drug for youth because its use often precedes the use of other illicit substance, this
terminology is counterproductive. Youth drinks require significant attention, not because of what
its leads to but because of extensive human and economic impact of alcohol use by this
vulnerable population.
Objectives
Non drinkers
In the modern era, the peoples live in a nuclear family setup. There is less possibility and
feelings on sharing and ventilation problems and emotion. So the peoples depend alcohol is a
simple problem solver. So more people including youth are addicted to alcohol. But actually such
an addiction in alcohol create plenty of economic problems to this society and individually. This
consumption of alcohol creates a great flow of money from the pocket of people. So this study
has great relevance and scope in the present era of alcohol addiction.
Data needed for the Research study is collected using the Questionnaire method and
schedule. Mainly data are collected through primary and secondary source of data.
Primary Source
From the person with alcohol addicted and also them family who they impacted them problems
of alcoholism.
Secondary sources
After the data have been collected, researcher shifts centre of attention to their analysis. Analysis
of data involves a number of closely related operations that are performed with the purpose of
summarizing the collected data and organizing these in such a manner that they will yield
This chapter contains analysis and interpretation of the collected data. It is based on the
response given by fifty respondents. Data collected for this purpose were analyzed using
appropriate statistical tests and the results and interpretations are given in this chapter. It deals
with the statistical analysis of the data and the interpretation of the results.
12 percent of respondents (6) belong to the age group 15-25. The age group (25-35) consists of
26 percent of the respondents (13) where 8 percent of the respondents (4) are in the category of
45-55. The remaining 4 percent respondents (2) belong to the age category above 55.
The researcher concluded from the above table that, majority of the people affected with
The table reveals that 48 percent of the respondents( 29) are daily workers. The other
respondents in the study are professionals who comprise of 16 percent (8) and the remaining 8
The researchers found out that majority of the respondents who are exposed to
From the table it is clear that 48 percent of the respondents (24) are having a monthly income of
5000-10000 while 28 percent (14) have family income of 10000-15000. About 20 percent (10)
have an income of 5000 and below. The training 4 percent (2) are having a monthly income of
The above table depicts that people with 5000-0000 monthly income are more liable to
From the table it is clear that 66 percent of the respondents are daily alcoholic consumers. 22
It is clear from the analysis is that majority of the respondents are daily consuming
alcohol products
Table 4.4
From the above table it is clear that, 76 percentages of respondents have the desire of stop
alcoholic consumption and 24 percentage of the respondents are not take any decision of stop
alcoholic consumption
The researcher found out that majority of the respondents, are wish to stop that alcoholic
consumption habit.
CHAPTER III
SUGGESTIONS
1 Government should take enough and effective steps to control the availability of alcohol.
2 Meer prohibiting alcohol will not be effective but take enough steps for de addicting the
3 Govt should reduce the welfare activity which avail excess money in the hands of working
4 Parents, teachers, and govt should take enough care, to keep away children below the eye of
20 from alcohol.
5 The problems and cost alcoholism should be a part of high school curriculum, especially in
Kerala.
6 It should be compulsory reveal in the matrimony that whether the person has habit of
drinking alcohol.
7 The tendency of the employer of giving incentive in the form of liquid should be prohibited.
8 Women empowerment and job promotion of women should promoted through by govt. as a
welfare scheme..
9 Govt. should act by knowing the fact that the increase in price of alcohol will not reduce its
consumption.
10 Reducing the availability of alcohol through official sources may not find success in case of
addicted people it may create illegal practices so with reducing availability de addiction also
should take
11 CONCLUSION
This study presents the first attempt systematically to assess the economic impacts of alcoholism.
The study is limited in scale, however, and therefore provides only an indication of the way in
which how the alcoholic consumption is effected economic wellbeing of the people. In
particular, the study could not produce actual quantitative estimates of the effects of the
alcoholism on the consumption pattern of the people for main two reasons. First, the peoples
consumption pattern and alcoholics consumptions are related in many ways. Second, for a
number of economic impacts of interest, the data available are simply not sufficient to arrive at
definitive conclusions with much certainty. For instance, the impact of alcoholism is impossible
to estimate accurately in the absence of good data. In view of these limitations, this study cannot
answer policy questions. This study allows us to go a little bit further in discussions of issues