Alcoholism Growing up in a family where almost all the kids have a habit of drinking, I agree with Somerset Maugham when he says: “The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are much easier to give up than bad ones. Having the habit of drinking every day before going to sleep is a bad habit. It's really hard to break it when you don't want to stop drinking. What makes you want to stop is when it is affecting your health or making you turn into a person you don't want to be and who starts doing things through the effect of alcohol that they themselves don't realize. To make people turn away from you and make people around you turn away just because of the bad habit of drinking. Alcohol is a very bad habit that is hard to stop, that's why I believe that bad habits are harder to break than good habits because the bad habits that you don't really want to break and the good habits that you try to pick up are easier to break. . Alcohol can become a habit of drinking every day when you are in a negative emotional state. In the article Theoretical Frameworks and Mechanistic Aspects of Alcohol Dependence: Alcohol Dependence as a Reward Deficit Disorder by koob GF, “The combination of loss of reward function and recruitment of brain stress systems provides a powerful neurochemical basis for a state negative emotional state that is responsible for the negative reinforcement that drives, at least in part, the compulsiveness of alcoholism.” (Theoretical Framework), as it says in this quote, alcohol can become a habit when you drink it in a state negative emotional. This can make you want to drink it whenever you are in a negative mood, making you feel like you need to drink alcohol to feel better. Which is very hard to decipher… middle of paper ... Associated with alcohol consumption and alcoholism Rehm Jürgen states: “Alcohol consumption, especially excessive consumption, is an important risk factor for many health problems and, therefore, a major contributor to the global burden of diseases.”(Jurgen). Since he said that alcohol is a major contributor to the global burden of disease, I believe it should be banned or teach students more about the effects it can cause on health. I see all my cousins ​​drinking alcohol once and getting addicted to it. I had been drinking alcohol and liked the way it was, but I quickly stopped because I saw what it can do to my health and I didn't want to become an alcoholic like the rest of my family. I want to drink it but I try not to drink it. Although my cousins ​​and friends pressure me to drink it sometimes. Researching it made me want to stay away from it more.